24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers — A Modern Reveal: Songs and Stories of Women Composers
A Modern Reveal
Press Photos Contact
Introduction Who we are Acknowledgements
Italian Songs & Arias Early Latin Music Jewish / Eastern European Composers French Composers Musical Theater Composers
24 Italian Songs and Arias by Women Composers 24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers
Concerts Recordings Lectures Programs Links Bibliography

holiday SALE: Buy a bundle of both our books, today!

A Modern Reveal
About Introduction Who we are Acknowledgements Composers Italian Songs & Arias Early Latin Music Jewish / Eastern European Composers French Composers Musical Theater Composers Our Books! 24 Italian Songs and Arias by Women Composers 24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers Resources Concerts Recordings Lectures Programs Links Bibliography PressPhotosContact

 24 French Songs and Arias by Women Composers

RELEASED JANUARY 2024

Order your copy!

Resources

Translations

French composer biographies

Recordings

 
 

Check out our Instagram feed!

View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to American composer, Kay Swift, born #onthisday in 1897 in NYC! Swift was the first woman to score the entirety of a popular musical (Fine and Dandy). #femalecomposers #womencomposers #musicbywomen #listentowomen #americancomposer
View fullsize 🎈 Happy Birthday to French composer, Germaine Tailleferre, born #onthisday in 1892! Tailleferre, the only female member of Les Six, began composing at a very early age and began her formal studies at the Paris Conservatoire by 12 years old. Taillef
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to British composer, pianist and choral conductor, Ann Mounsey, born #onthisday in 1811 in London! Mounsey composed an oratorio, cantatas, instrumental works, and more than 120 songs for voice and piano. #femalecomposers #womencomp
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to British composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator, Ethel Leginska, born #onthisday in 1886! Leginska was the first woman to conduct many of the world’s leading orchestras and she wrote 3 operas, orchestral works, pia
View fullsize 🎈 Happy Birthday to English composer, musicologist and conductor, Imogen Holst, born #onthisday in 1907! She was the daughter of Gustav Holst and participated in a wide variety of musical activities. Her extensive range of compositions includes vo
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to French composer, painter, and Queen consort of Holland, Hortense de Beauharnais, born #onthisday in 1783! Bonaparte played piano, studying with Steiblet, Mozin, and Jadin. She also sang and studied the harp and lyre with Dalvimar
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to American composer, Florence Price, born #onthisday in 1887 in Little Rock, AR! Price was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra.
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to English composer, Phyllis Tate, born #onthisday in 1911! Tate was inspired by the jazz movement in the 1920s and began her composing life by writing foxtrots and blues music. She entered the Royal Academy of Music when she was 17
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to American composer and pianist, Mary Howe, born #onthisday in 1882! Howe wrote many songs, works for chorus, piano, orchestra, chamber music, and organ. Her style emulated neo-romanticism and many of her songs were written in supp
View fullsize 🎈Happy Birthday to Estonian composer and pedagogue, Els Aarne, born #onthisday in 1917 in Makeyevka, Russian Empire (now known as Ukraine)! Aarne studied music pedagogy, piano, and composition at the Tallinn State Conservatory where she later taugh
5166556353 info@amodernreveal.com
Hours
 

© 2025 A Modern Reveal: Songs & Stories of women composers

Excerpts, original photos, and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to A Modern Reveal, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.