Can anybody recommend some women classical piano composers? I have seen some interesting collections books but the problem is that books are a mix of all the eras while I am mostly interested in 20th or 21th century first, then maybe some romantic but not all. I am very new to classical so I am not familiar with repertoire. I am not sure about my grade but it is probably somewhere in between 4 and 6 RCM. Thanks
Debbie Wiseman has composed music for film, television and the concert hall in recent years.
There are lots of women writing graded piano music - by that I mean pieces at different levels for students. Such as Martha Mier.
Which 20-21 century male composers do you like? Your answer may help you get better recommendations.
If we're limiting it to relatively modern composers, I really like Amy Beach.
The little I've heard of Germaine Tailleferre makes me curious to hear more. Pathbreaker did one of her pieces for Recital#2.
The collection '22 Nocturnes for Chopin' by EVC Music consists entirely of nocturnes by 21st-century, living women composers. That would be a good stepping stone to explore more of each composer's work.
Apart from Martha Mier mentioned by @Sam, there is Pam Wedgwood, Melanie Spanswick or Barbara Arens.
If you like film music, I would recommend Rachel Portman.
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.
