{"product_id":"the-nortongrove-dictionary-of-women-composers","title":"The Norton\/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout history women have been composing music  but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized. The few in earlier times who gained some renown were as often as not the sisters  daughters  wives  or muses of well-known menthe surnames of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann speak for themselves. Even with the present-day increase in their number  women composers have largely failed to draw the attention of the public.  In recognition of these nearly invisible yet greatly talented musicians  Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel have brought together an international corps of experts to produce The Norton\/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. This definitive source provides detailed biographies of more than 1 000 creators of Western classical music. In signed articles  the Dictionary chronicles the lives and works of women composers from all corners of the world. Here you can read about the Medieval mystic Hildgard von Bingen  the Renaissance madrigalist Maddalena Casulana  the flamboyant seventeenth-century vocal composer Barbara Strozzi  the prolific New Englander Amy Beach  and the Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966710607925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393034879","price":40.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393034875.jpg?v=1770575947","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-nortongrove-dictionary-of-women-composers","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}