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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
Aug 22, 2025 Elsa Respighi: Why This Composer’s Wife Gave Up Her Musical Career
Aug 21, 2025 What Happened to Clara Schumann’s Siblings?
Aug 20, 2025 Horowitz’s Teacher Felix Blumenfeld: “Vibrant, Handsome, Many Vices”
Aug 19, 2025 The Tyrannical Dictator Who Forced Chopin to Play For Him
Aug 18, 2025 15 Pieces of Classical Music About Mountains
Aug 17, 2025 Chopin’s Polish Friends and Their Tragic Stories
Aug 16, 2025 The Greatest Self-Taught Composers, Part 1
Aug 15, 2025 Glamorous Pianist Eileen Joyce: Four Concertos, One Night!
Aug 14, 2025 Maude Valérie White: The Most-Performed Woman Composer at the Proms
Aug 11, 2025 10 Greatest Piano Concerto Openings of All Time