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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
Jul 31, 2025 Secrets About Chopin from George Sand’s Novel Lucrezia Floriani
Jul 29, 2025 Robert Schumann’s Illness, In His Own Words
Jul 28, 2025 Your Favorite Composers’ Favorite Composers
Jul 27, 2025 The Crazy Deadly Inventions of Maurice Ravel’s Father
Jul 26, 2025 30 Pieces of Classical Music About Water
Jul 25, 2025 Brahms’s Composer Colleagues and Their Unjustly Neglected Masterpieces, Part 2
Jul 24, 2025 Four of the Most Devastating Composer Injuries Ever
Jul 23, 2025 Max Steiner, the Movie Composer Injected With Amphetamines
Jul 21, 2025 Which Composer Wrote the Most Symphonies Ever?
Jul 20, 2025 Karl Tausig: The Great Forgotten Liszt Student Who Died At 29