Women composers
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Maybe you would like Grazyna Bacewicz. Like Bartok, her themes incorporate quite a bit of her national (Polish) folk music.
I just listened to Children's Suite. It's wonderful! Thanks for letting me know!
I don't know what you mean by classical, but some other women composers are Ailbhe McDonagh, Angeline Bell, Anne Crosby, Catherine Rollin, Chee-Hwa Tan, Eugénie Rocherolle, Linda Niamath, Melody Bober, Nancy Telfer, Susan Griesdale.
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... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...
Charlotte Sohy, Six petites pièces (1922)
Here are the first five:
rsl12 you can find a review here: https://pianodao.com/2020/10/10/bacewicz-childrens-suite/
I can recommend Cécile Chaminade who wrote many pieces for piano. And if you like Bartok, then maybe Galina Ustvolskaya who was a student of Shostakovitch.
I liked some of Elena Kats-Chernin's stuff someone showed me a while back. Don't have any specific pieces, but I thought I might throw the name out there in case someone is interested.
Here's a curated list of 20th-century women composers from the Internet. It might help.
[https://www.musicbywomen.org/composers/20th-21st-century/](https://)
Mel Bonis, Scènes enfantines, Op. 92. I only played no. 7, Bébé s'endort. It's RCM 5. Other pieces in the book seem to be of similar difficulty. You can find the score on imslp: https://imslp.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_enfantines,_Op.92(Bonis,Mel).
plop_symphony I too was going to recommend this book as well.
Here's a new anthology by Faber (not the Piano Adventures Faber, the other one) with a lot of composers I haven't seen in other such anthologies.