Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century

摘要

The aims of this book are laudable, to gather in one volume a record of all female composers from 1,500 to the present day, grouped chronologically into eight time periods. Each entry gives a brief biography and a list of works and the principle source material. The author notes, regretfully, that there is no discography, as so little of this music has been recorded. There is a full name A-Z index at the back, which is helpful for known names, and this confirms if a composer is also listed in the section for librettists.