Having just celebrated her seventeenth birthday, Laura began playing piano at three and composing at seven. At ten, her first composition won awards in Toronto and Milan. She has since released two albums and created dozens of piano and organ
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For some composers, falling in love was gradual; for others, it was like being struck by lightning. A performance, a chance meeting, a dinner party, or even a single conversation could leave these men completely captivated – and sometimes they
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Paintings in Carl Schimmel’s String Quartet No. 2, “Six Faces” The paintings in Carl Schimmel’s Second String Quartet, Six Faces, are all Cubist works painted between 1911 and 1920. The 4 women and 2 men are shown with their belongings:
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Tchaikovsky wintered in Rome in 1879–80 and began what he first imagined as an Italian suite on folk melodies. Conductor Ionel Perlea recorded it in Vienna's Musikverein in 1956 with an intriguing ad hoc orchestra. Have a listen!
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Classical music history remembers Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Dvořák, Wagner, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky as “great composers”: men who helped create the orchestral repertoire for a century, between the 1840s and 1940s. But women composers were also composing at the same
