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Alphabetical by Last Name


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Birth -- Death . . Name

00 00 -- 00 00 . . Harriet Abrams
19 28 -- 00 00 . . Luna Alcalay
15 70 -- xx xx . . Raffaela Aleotti
15 75 -- xx xx . . Vittoria Aleotti
17 39 -- 18 07 . . Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe Weimar
17 23 -- 17 87 . . Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia
18 41 -- 19 29 . . Elfrida Andree
19 03 -- 19 90 . . Claude Arrieu
18 20 -- 18 79 . . Fanny Arthur
18 60 -- 19 29 . . Valborg Aulin
19 13 -- 19 69 . . Grazyna Bacewicz
00 00 -- 00 00 . . Sophia Baker
18 47 -- 19 07 . . Agathe Backer-Grondahl
18 38 -- 18 61 . . Thekla Badarzewska
17 31 -- 17 64 . . Elisabetta de Bambanini
18 19 -- 19 05 . . Laura W. Barker (Mrs. Tom Taylor)
18 30 -- 18 69 . . Mrs. Barnard
19 10 -- 00 00 . . Elsa Barraine
18 87 -- 19 55 . . Marian Bauer (Marion)
18 67 -- 19 44 . . H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach
11 40 -- 12 12 . . Countess Beatrice of Dia
11 40 -- 12 12 . . Countess Beatrice of Dia
16 70 -- xx xx . . Antonia Bembo
10 98 -- 11 79 . . Hildegard von Bingen
18 95 -- 19 52 . . Henriette Bosmans
18 93 -- 19 18 . . Lili Juliette Marie Olga Boulanger
18 87 -- 19 79 . . Nadia Juliette Boulanger
19 40 -- 00 00 . . Anne Boyd
18 81 -- 19 77 . . Gena Branscombe
18 63 -- 19 52 . . Dora Bright
18 40 -- 18 80 . . Ingeborg von Bronsart
15 87 -- 16 40 . . Francesca Caccini
18 90 -- 19 78 . . Marguerite Canal
17 67 -- 18 34 . . Amelie Julie Candeille
19 22 -- 00 00 . . Doreen Carwithen
15 40 -- 15 83 . . Maddalena Casulana
18 47 -- 19 44 . . Cecile Chaminade
17 40 -- 18 05 . . Isabelle de Charriere
18 86 -- 19 79 . . Rebecca Clarke
17 85 -- 18 45 . . Isabella Colbran
12 00 -- 12 xx . . Dame Costelloza
18 78 -- 19 71 . . Mabel Wheeler Daniels ?1960
17 68 -- 18 00 . . Margarethe Danzi
19 21 -- 19 68 . . Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Demessieux
19 27 -- 00 00 . . Emma Lou Diemer
19 05 -- 00 00 . . Shula Doniach
19 01 -- 19 75 . . Isobel Dunlop

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17 xx -- 17 xx . . Mlle Edelmann
18 04 -- 18 75 . . Jeanne-Louise Dumont Farrenc
19 31 -- 00 00 . . Sofia Asgatovna Gabaidulina
19 62 -- 00 00 . . Nana Gabshvili
19 06 -- 00 00 . . Miriam Gideon
19 21 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Gipps
19 12 -- 19 90 . . Peggy Glanville-Hicks
17 72 -- 17 90 . . Lucille Gretry
16 59 -- 17 29 . . Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre ?1666
18 90 -- 19 69 . . Pauline Hall
18 58 -- 19 36 . . Guy d' Hardelot (pseud of Helen Rhodes)
19 15 -- 00 00 . . Pamela Harrison
18 05 -- 18 47 . . Fanny Cacilie Mendelssohn Hensel
18 41 -- 19 18 . . Louise Pauline Marie Heritte-Viardot
18 47 -- 19 03 . . Augusta May Anne Holmes (pseud: Hermann Zenta)
19 07 -- 19 84 . . Imogen Holst
19 37 -- 00 00 . . Katherine Hoover
18 82 -- 19 64 . . Mary Howe
18 98 -- 19 82 . . Dorothy Howell
18 62 -- 19 46 . . Carrie Jacobs-Bond
18 46 -- 19 25 . . Marie Jaëll

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19 15 -- 19 40 . . Vitezslava Kapralova
19 39 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Kolb
18 15 -- 18 80 . . Josephine Lang
19 50 -- 00 00 . . Libby Larsen
19 47 -- 00 00 . . Nicola LeFanu
18 62 -- 19 18 . . Liza Lehmann
16 20 -- 17 04 . . Isabella Leonarda
19 06 -- 19 83 . . Elisabeth Lutyens (Elizabeth?)
19 07 -- 00 00 . . Dame Elizabeth Maconchy
18 79 -- 19 64 . . Alma Mahler
18 53 -- 18 94 . . Amanda Maier
17 44 -- 18 12 . . Marianna von Martines (Martinez) 1745?
15 42 -- 16 17 . . Tarquinia Molza
18 73 -- 19 57 . . Mary Carr Moore
19 28 -- 00 00 . . Thea Musgrave
18 39 -- 19 27 . . Laura Netzel
19 29 -- 00 00 . . Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova
17 59 -- 18 24 . . Maria Theresia von Paradis
19 12 -- 00 00 . . Oliveros Pauline
19 12 -- 00 00 . . Barbara Pentland
19 24 -- 19 79 . . Julia Perry
16 81 -- 17 28 . . Anne Danican Philidor (** Actually a man, despite the name **)
13 63 -- 14 31 . . Christine de Pisan
18 79 -- 19 32 . . Poldowski (pseud of: Irene Regine Wieniawska)
19 26 -- 00 00 . . Claire Polin
19 05 -- 19 87 . . Elizabeth Poston
18 88 -- 19 53 . . Florence Price

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19 03 -- 19 86 . . Priaulx Rainier
18 xx -- 18 xx . . Cathrine Felicie van Rees
17 52 -- 17 83 . . Juliane Reichardt
17 79 -- 18 26 . . Louise Reichardt
18 58 -- 19 36 . . Helen Rhodes (pseud: Guy d' Hardelot)
19 26 -- 00 00 . . Marga Richter
19 49 -- 00 00 . . Marjorie M. Rusche
17 xx -- 17 xx . . Jane Savage
18 94 -- 19 70 . . Philippine Schick
17 51 -- 18 02 . . Elisabeth Schmelling (pseud: Corona Schröter)
19 24 -- 00 00 . . Ruth Schonthal
17 51 -- 18 02 . . Corona Schröter (pseud of Elisabeth Schmelling)
18 19 -- 18 96 . . Clara Wieck Schumann
19 01 -- 19 53 . . Ruth Crawford Seeger
17 35 -- 17 98 . . Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (Syrmen)
18 58 -- 19 44 . . Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
18 58 -- 19 44 . . Ethel Smyth
16 19 -- 16 64 . . Barbara Strozzi
17 89 -- 18 31 . . Maria Agatha Szymanowska
18 92 -- 19 83 . . Germaine Tailleferre
19 06 -- 19 96 . . Louise Talma
19 11 -- 00 00 . . Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate
18 19 -- 19 05 . . Mrs. Tom Taylor (Laura W. Barker)
18 64 -- 19 43 . . Alice Tegner
19 64 -- 00 00 . . Augusta Read Thomas
19 xx -- 00 00 . . Ellen R. Thompson
19 15 -- 00 00 . . Joan Trimble
11 65 -- 12 21 . . Maria de Ventadorn
18 21 -- 19 10 . . Michelle Pauline Viardot-Garcia
17 xx -- 17 xx . . Antonia Amalia Walpurgia (ETPA)
18 55 -- 19 37 . . Maude Valerie White
18 79 -- 19 32 . . Irene Regine Wieniawska (pseud: Poldowski)
19 41 -- 00 00 . . Margaret Lucy Wilkins
19 06 -- 19 77 . . Grace Williams
17 50 -- 17 xx . . Maria Carolina Wolf
18 60 -- 19 19 . . Amy Woodford-Finden-Ward
19 45 -- 00 00 . . Judith Lang Zaimont
18 47 -- 19 03 . . Hermann Zenta (pseud of: Augusta May Anne Holmes)
19 39 -- 00 00 . . Ellen Taafe Zwilich

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