Women Composers

* 1972

Snezana Nesic is a Serbian composer and accordionist based in Germany. She began her musical studies in the P.I .Tschaikowsky, Kiev and completed her post-graduate studies in 2004 at the University for Music and Drama, Hannover, where she was mentored by Professor Johannes Schöllhorn (Composition) and Professor Elsbeth Moser (Accordion). Since 2005 is she univerity lecturer in musical composition and interpretation of modern musik at the Hannover University of Musik, Drama and Media, where she also directs ensemble „incontri“ and…

* 1968 in Graz

Olga Neuwirth, 1968 in Graz geboren, nahm schon als Schülerin an einem Kompositionskurs von Hans Werner Henze und Gerd Kühr teil, weil ihre Eltern sie dazu überredet hatten. Bis dahin war die Jazztrompete ihr einziger Bezug zur Musik gewesen. Nach dem Abitur zog es sie dann, um Komposition zu studieren, 1986 an das Conservatory of Music nach San Franzisco, ein Jahr später begann sie ein Kompositionsstudium an der Hochschule für Kunst in Wien bei Erich Urbanner und belegte auch Kurse…

* 1885
✝ 1967

Julia Niebergall (1886-1968) wrote several rags and most were published by the Aufderheide publishing firm. It may seem unusual to have women composing ragtime, but there were actually quite a number of women who composed. Julia Lee Niebergall was a talented friend of composer May Aufderheide, whose father eventually published two of her works. Julia was born into a musical family as her Dad played the double bass, occasionally even with the Indianapolis Philharmonic, her sister took to the piano,…