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Forgotten female composers: groundswell or fad?

2021-09-02T17:00:58.332Z


SURVEY - Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria, Charlotte Sohy, Mademoiselle Duval, Jeanne Barbillion… On record as well as on stage, from piano solo to opera, from the Philharmonie de Paris to Salle Favart, these women stifled by history come out more and more often in the shade.


In this re-entry, impossible to pass through. Composers invite themselves posthumously on the agenda of venues, artists or companies. While pianist Marie-Catherine Girod has just published

Portraits de femme

chez Mirare, an anthology of works for solo piano by seventeen composers, from the best known (Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Lili Boulanger), to the most ignored (Jeanne Barbillion). , Henriette Bösmans…), conductor Laurence Equilbey released at Warner / Erato the first part of her complete symphonic work by Louise Farrenc, which will continue this season. At Robert Laffont's, her colleague Debora Waldman and journalist Pauline Sommelet exhume, with accuracy and passion, the life and work of Charlotte Sohy in

La Symphonie oubliée

.

The lyric company Arcal will give the French premiere at the end of the month of

Talestri, Reine des Amazons 

: one of the rare 18th century operas composed by a woman.

And which woman: Maria Antonia Walpurgis, princess

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Source: lefigaro

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