Women Composers

* 1892 in Parc-Saint-Maur, Paris
✝ 1983

Germaine Tailleferre wurde am 19. April 1892 als jüngstes von fünf Kindern in kleinbürgerlichem Milieu in Parc-Saint-Maur bei Paris geboren. Die Familie war aus der Normandie in die Großstadt gezogen. Ihrem trunksüchtigen und jähzornigen Vater zum Trotz nahm sie, durch die Mutter heimlich unterstützt, als Achtjährige bei Eva Meyer Klavierunterricht und studierte ab 1903 gegen den teilweise gewalttätigen Widerstand des Vaters Klavier (bei Eva Meyer) und Komposition (bei Henri Dallier, Nadia Boulanger und Georges Caussade) am Conservatoire in Paris, wo…

* 1969 in Kaiserslautern

Tina Ternes was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on August 15, 1969. She showed musical talent quite early, which was encouraged by means of piano lessons starting when she was 7 years old. Later, she also learned to play the double-bass, and at the same time began systematic studies of music theory. Until 1993 she studied school music at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and complemented her main studies with film music studies at Wiesbaden-based Music Academy (1992-1994 with Hubert Minkenberg).…

* 1955 in Germany

*1955 Germany Anne Terzibaschitsch was born in Essen. She began piano lessons when she was five and went on to learn violin at the age of ten and cello at the age of twelve. She attended the University of Music in Karlsruhe from 1975 to 1983, graduating in piano studies. Anne Terzibaschitsch has worked as a freelance pianist and piano teacher for many years. She has composed and arranged numerous piec­es for piano in connection with her teaching work. These…

* 1965

“CAROLINE THON is a name to remember!” (Spiegel-online) “We are presented here with a talented and self-confident artist who has no need of superficial glamour and who is well on the way to becoming one of the leading female voices in German jazz.” (Jazzpodium) Caroline Thon studied classical saxophone, then spent a year at Berklee College of Music (Boston/USA), before obtaining a degree in composition and arrangement from Cologne. In keeping with the multi-faceted nature of her training, she treads…

* 1753
✝ 1828

Marquise Jeanne-Renée de Travanet, née de Bombelles, was born into a family of high nobility and had been lady-in-waiting to Madame Elisabeth, sister of King Louis XVI, prior to her marriage. She was born March 3rd 1753, married the Marquis de Travanet in 1779, and died May 4th 1828. After the French revolution, which her husband had joined, the couple bought the secularized monastery Royaumont in Asnières-sur-Oise and transformed it into a factory. The couple became estranged from each other,…