Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

by Anna Beer

Book Overview

"The cultural historian Anna Beer's rewarding new book about the forgotten women of classical music includes insightful portraits of eight composers, a couple of whom are truly forgotten, like the 17th-century Italian Francesca Caccini. But penetrating essays on better-known figures, like Clara Schumann, are even more interesting for the way Ms. Beer conveys the sexism and lifelong frustrations some immensely gifted creative artists encountered."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780748566
• ISBN13: 9781780748566
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.6"