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Emily E. Hogstad

IMG_0159 reduceEmily E. Hogstad is the author of the blog Song of the Lark. She has appeared on or in MinnPost, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, WQXR, Performance Today, and The New York Times to offer thoughts on topics as diverse as the Minnesota Orchestra’s historic 2015 trip to Cuba, what it means to be a music nerd, and social media activism in the orchestra world. Her great passion is researching the history of women in music, especially the great forgotten female violinists of the past. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a violin, a viola, a laptop named after Lili Boulanger, and two rescue cats, Gwendolyn and Genevieve.

Contributed Posts
Mar 17, 2025 10 Pieces of Classical Music About Dreams
Mar 15, 2025 Which Composer Had the Worst Childhood?
Mar 12, 2025 Three Pianists Who Survived the Nazi Concentration Camps
Mar 9, 2025 The Final Recordings of the Great Pianists
Mar 5, 2025 What Happened to These Five Lost Works of Classical Music?
Mar 1, 2025 Chopin’s Most Popular Works in Ten Genres
Feb 26, 2025 Truly Hellish: Clara Schumann’s Best Insults
Feb 22, 2025 10 Pieces of Classical Music About Unrequited Love
Feb 15, 2025 Liszt for Beginners
Thirteen Pieces to Make You Love Liszt
Feb 12, 2025 Ten Great Composers Like Mozart