Find more! See our more complete guide to resources: Women in Classical Music.
Here are just a few of many women composers. Click to see a list of their music in our library.
Use the resources below to discover other women composers. Then, search their name in our catalog to find their music in the library.
If we don't own a piece you want, search for it in WorldCat and click "ILL this with ILLiad" to borrow a copy from another library. Or, contact Tracey Rudnick (rudnick@hartford.edu, 860.768.4404) to suggest we buy a copy.
Click to see the newest women's studies books in the Allen Library
Search subjects in the catalog:
Feminism and music
Gender identity in music
Music by women composers > Analysis, appreciation
Music by women composers > History and criticism
Sex role in music
Women composers
Women music patrons
Women musicians
...or search specific names, for example:
Marian Anderson
Amy Beach
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Hildegard of Bingen
Florence Price
Clara Schumann
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Search articles online or browse the Allen Library current periodicals (near the Allen entrance).
See especially:
Search one of the following databases for specific names, work titles, or keywords such as women, feminism, sexism, gender, etc.
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