Sounds And Sweet Airs Av Anna Beer

<B>The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world.</B><BR> <BR><B>‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [<I>Sounds and Sweet Airs</I>] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ <I>The Sunday Times</I></B><BR> <BR><I>Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.</I><BR> <BR>Since the birth of classical music, women who dared compose have faced a bitter struggle to be heard. In spite of this, female composers continued to create, inspire and challenge. Yet even today so much of their work languishes unheard.<BR> <BR>Anna Beer reveals the highs and lows experienced by eight composers across the centuries, from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century London, restoring to their rightful place exceptional women whom history has forgotten.