Women Composers

in Kassel

A Publisher creates a furore – 25 years of Furore Verlag The Furore Verlag was founded by Renate Matthei in 1986 to publish music and books by and about women composers from all periods, and remains the only publishing house of its kind in the world. On 21 September 2011, the music publisher will celebrate its 25th anniversary in Kassel with the concerto "L’amour et le printemps" with songs for soprano and harp. As part of the celebration the soprano…

* 1804 in Paris
✝ 1875 in Paris

Jeanne-Louise Dumont was born on May 31st 1804 in Paris. Her parents descended from famous artist families which had been well known as painters, sculptors and engravers ever since the 17th century. At a very young age Louise already received piano lessons from her godmother Cécile Soria. At the age of fifteen she received her first composition lessons from Anton Reicha at the Conservatoire, later on from Johann Nepomuk Hummel. In 1821, Louise married the flute player and publisher Aristide…

* 1928
✝ 2011

The Israeli composer Sarah Feigin was born in Latvia. She studied piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Riga and obtained her “Master of Music” qualification there in 1959. In 1972 she settled in Israel where she founded a conservatory a year later. Sarah Feigin was director of this conservatory for ten years and taught music and composition. From 1973 to 1990 she worked for “Jeunesses Musicales d’Israël”, organising concerts and presenting and explaining her works, which contain…

* 1975 in Italy

Carlotta Ferrari is an Italian composer. She won the 2nd award at the 2013 edition of Sisì-Frezza competition held by the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, and the 2nd award at the 2018 edition of Opus Ignotum Choral Composition Competition, supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture. In 2018, she was commissioned by Harvard University to write a new carol for the 109th edition of the Christmas Carol Service. In 2020, a paper on her symphonic poem for…

* 1793
✝ 1840

Elise Filipowicz, (also: Elizabeth) née Mayer, was born in Rastadt in 1794. At the age of only eleven, she was given violin tuition by Louis Spohr, to whom she remained closely attached for the rest of her life, in Gotha. Now going by the name of Minelli, the surname of her first husband, she gave concerts in Germany and in Poland, where she settled after his death. She worked there for the family of Count Starzenski. Her second marriage was…

* 1945 in Haifa, Isarel

Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1946. Her parents, Polish-born Jewish pioneers met in Palestine. Before Tsippi was born her father's entire family had already perished during the Holocaust. As a three-year-old she was already improvising at the piano. In time she studied piano and theory formally at the Rubin Conservatory of Music in Haifa. She grew up in a Jewish-Arab environment and the ambience of co-existence characterizing the city of Haifa flows naturally into her creative oeuvre.…