Women Composers

* 1775 in Paris in Paris

Edmée Sophie Gail, née Garre, was born August 28th 1775 as daughter of the physician and surgeon Claude-Francois Garre (1730–1799) in Paris. From early childhood on she proved to be a good pianist and published her first songs at the age of fourteen. She studied music theory with Francois-Joseph Fétis, married at the age of nineteen philosopher and professor Jean-Baptiste Gail who was significantly older than her and was already divorced in 1801. Student and concert tours as a singer…

* 1902 in Riga
✝ 1977

Lucija Garuta kam am 14. Mai 1902 in Riga zur Welt. Über ihre Eltern und musikalische Anregungen und Ausbildung in ihrer Kindheit war in Literatur und 1 erichten von nochlebenden Zeitgenossen nichts zu erfahren. Ihre musikalische Laufbahn aber ist in den einschlägigen Lexika genau wiedergegeben. Die Grundlagen der Kompositionslehre studierte L. Garuta in Riga bei N. Almanis, dazu Klavier im lettischen Konservatorium in der Klasse von Frau M. Zilinska, dann bei Hans Schmidt, später bei L.G. Dombrovska. Kompositionstheorie studierte sie…

* 1947 in Avezzano, Abruzzen

Ada Gentile wurde am 26. Juli 1947 in Avezzano in den Abruzzen in eine sehr innig verbundene Großfamilie hineingeboren. Sie ist die Jüngste von zehn Kindern. Sie begann mit dem Klavierstudium am Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rom und wechselte dann zu Irma Ravinale zum Studium der Komposition. 1971 legte sie ihr Diplom im Klavierspiel ab, 1974 schloss sie das Kompositionsstudium ab Sofort danach schrieb sich Gentile an der Accademia di Santa Cecilia für Meisterkurse ein, wo sie das Glück…

* 1888
✝ 1974

Irene M. Giblin was raised in Missouri, living much of her life in St. Louis. Having been a good piano student showing a natural talent for the instrument in her adolescence, Irene was first employed as a music demonstrator by Charles Daniels (a.k.a. Neil Moret) at the Grand Leader department store in St. Louis at the tender but eager age of 14. She was hired to play all of the latest hits from the Jerome Remick catalog, and her sister…

* 1877
✝ 1964

Wurde als Gertrude Imogene Rupert in Fairfield, Iowa, geboren und es nahezu nichts aus Ihrem Leben bekannt. Sie heiratete Henry Emerson Giles und betrieb die erfolgreiche Giles Brothers Music Company in Quincy, Illinois mit ihrem Bruder Jacob. Nach ihrer Hochzeit gab sie in ihrer Musikalienhandlung Musikunterricht.

* 1931

Ursula Görsch studied music at the College of Education in Bremen and in addition to qualifying as a teacher also studied the piano privately under Walter Bohle at the Conservatory in Bremen. In 1964 she went to teach in Istanbul for five years where she founded Turkey's first young people's chamber orchestra. After returning to Germany in 1969 she continued her studies at the Karlsruhe University of Music and attended courses in Composition in Darmstadt and Salzburg. Her works include…

* 1861 in Greifswald
✝ 1944 in Merxhausen

We have few sources of information about the life, works and activities of Luise Greger, the major female songwriter at the turn of the last century. She was born 1861 in Greifswald and started learning the piano at the age of five. It is said that her unusual talent took her to Russia in 1871, where she played for the family of the Czar. She began writing songs at the age of about eleven. Unconfirmed sources claim that she studied…

* 1931 in Tschistopol an der Wolga

Sofia Gubaidulina wurde 1931 in Tschistopol an der Wolga geboren. Sie studierte Musik in Kasan und am Moskauer Konservatorium. Sie zählt neben A. Schnittke, E. Denissow und V. Silwestrow zu den führenden russischen Avantgardisten. Ihre Werke werden zunehmend im Westen bekannt. 1963 erhielt sie den 1. Preis im Allunionswettbewerb für ihre Komposition 'Allegro rustico', für ihr Orchesterwerk 'Stufen' eine Auszeichnung im 7. Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb in Rom.

* 1665
✝ 1729

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries France produced a number of distinguished musicians, not least among them Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet. Born in Paris in 1665, Elizabeth very early in life achieved fame as a harpsichordist and was engaged to provide musical entertainment at the court of Louis XIV. Her appearances as singer, harpsichordist, and composer elicited high praise and brought her great renown, even in foreign countries. After leaving her royal employ in the early 1680s and marrying the Parisian organist…