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Few Romantic Era love stories are as passionate – or as tumultuous – as the relationship between Franz Liszt and Marie d’Agoult. What began as an unexpected meeting in a Parisian salon in the early 1830s blossomed into an intense
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Over the centuries, many of history’s most important women composers were forced to publish under male pseudonyms. Across the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, dozens of women composers adopted masculine or gender-neutral identities so their work would be reviewed
