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Originally Posted by HarryT
The art world, rightly or wrongly, is male dominated. Can you name a famous woman composer, or artist? I don't think I could.
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Sally Beamish. Fanny Mendlesohn is often mentioned. There's another one called Gubaidinova or something (I'm not gonna cheat by Googling - hence all these spellings are wrong ). There was a famous British female composer from around the 20's whose name escapes me at the moment
- Edith someone or other I think.
There are quite a few modern ones who get commissions; there was some awful din on Radio 3 yesterday by a lady composer who'd been inspired by Tarot cards to inflict a racket on the rest of us.
How could I forget Hildegard of Bingen
- the most famous of the lot!
Ok, just Googled to satisfy my curiosity, turns out 'Edith someone' was actually Ethyl Smyth. And 'Gubaidinova' is Sofia Gubaidulina.
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