Women composers in Germany
By: edited by Roswitha Sperber
Publisher: Inter Nationes
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Bonn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Women composers; Biography; Music; History and criticism; Music by women composers
Other titles: Komponistinnen in Deutschland.
Notes: Title on accompanying CD: Komponistinnen in Deutschland.

Accompanying CD contains performances of excerpts from works by composers mentioned in the text, by various performers (previously released material).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Condemned to silence? : women in music between antiquity and the Baroque age / Nanny Drechsler; title: Princesses and virtuosi / Ute Schalz-Laurenze; title: Between public and private / Beatrix Borchard; title: Early women students of composition; title: Women composers as university professors; title: In search of identity : women composers and the "Women's Movement" / Roswitha Sperber; title: Witnesses to the century / Ingo Wackenhut; title: Form and function : women composers born in the Twenties and Thirties / Ingo Wackenhut; title: Between string quartet and musique concrète / Ingo Wackenhut; title: Many-sided and self-assured : the "younger" generaton of women composers; title: In exile : "I feel myself uprooted" / Roswitha Sperber; title: Concordance of many cultures : Germany as refuge for women composers?; title: Staccato existence : Russian women composers in Germany / Dorothea Redepenning; title: From ritual to abstraction : women composers from Romania / Roswitha Sperber; title: Of space and sound : music and new media; title: Music for theatre, radio plays, performance, and television / Ingo Wackenhut; title: Between avantgarde and jazz : Lauren Newton, composer and singer / Roswitha Sperber; title: The creator in the background : women composers in jazz / Gunna Wendt; title: Women songwriters in rock and pop music / Anne Breick.; title: [CD] Ordo virtutuum. Finale / Hildegard von Bingen; title: Concerto in G minor for harpsichord and strings. 1st movement / Wilhelmine von Bayreuth; title: In exitu Israel. Opening chorus / Marianne Martinez; title: Oratorio on Bible scenes. Introduction / Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel; title: Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor, op. 7. Allegro maestoso / Clara Wieck-Schumann; title: Sonata for violoncello and piano in D major, op. 17. Allegro molto / Luise Adolpha Le Beau; title: Scharlachrote Buchstaben [excerpt] / Barbara Heller; title: Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius [excerpt] / Ruth Schonthal; title: El sueño [excerpt] / Susanne Erding-Swiridoff; title: Frühe Kafka-Texte. Interlude no. 4 ; Die Bäume / Ruth Zechlin; title: Romantic trio [excerpt] / Olga Magidenko; title: String trio, Il pleut doucement sur la ville. 1st & 2nd movement / Annette Schlünz; title: Behind the velvet curtain [excerpt] / Rebecca Saunders; title: Flöten des Lichts : Flächenspiel für eine Sängerin und fünf Bläser [excerpt] / Adriana Hölszky; title: Dreisam-Nore / Younghi Pagh-Paan; title: Chamber symphony : "objet diaphane" [excerpt] / Charlotte Seither; title: Euraculos [excerpt] / Violeta Dinescu; title: In croce [excerpt] / Sofia Gubaidulina.