Brilliant perspective - its so clear that most successful women in music (and indeed science) whose work & lives I've learnt about seem to have been largely very much celebrated and accepted in their day (with obvious limitations of course) - and it is history, not their contemporaries, which has written them out. I grew up thinking that women composers didn't exist and that what we see now is a new thing, many women composers getting into the spotlight (admittedly not as much as they should) - but its just not the case - they have always been there, - we seem to find it so easy to forget!
Thank you! Completely agreed - historical forgetting is so problematic, and only compounds what prejudices these women did face in their lifetimes. Very glad there are so many efforts to redress the balance where women composers are concerned!
Brilliant perspective - its so clear that most successful women in music (and indeed science) whose work & lives I've learnt about seem to have been largely very much celebrated and accepted in their day (with obvious limitations of course) - and it is history, not their contemporaries, which has written them out. I grew up thinking that women composers didn't exist and that what we see now is a new thing, many women composers getting into the spotlight (admittedly not as much as they should) - but its just not the case - they have always been there, - we seem to find it so easy to forget!
Thank you! Completely agreed - historical forgetting is so problematic, and only compounds what prejudices these women did face in their lifetimes. Very glad there are so many efforts to redress the balance where women composers are concerned!