women piano

Selection of Piano Music by Women Composers

This is a purely personal selection, with an indication of sources and further publications

ELISABETH-CLAUDE JACQUET DE LA GUERRE (c1664-1729)

Rondeau* & Gigue from Suite in G minor

Pieces de Clavecin: Heugel, Le Pupitre LP66

MARIANNA MARTINES (1744-1812)

Sonata in A major, 1st movement*

Three Sontas for Keyboard, ed. Shirley Bean. Hildegard 09203 (1994)

MARIE-EMANUELLE BAYON (1746-1825)

Sonata in F major (Op 1 No 1) 1st movement

Six Sonates pour le Clavecin (3 with violin obbligato), Op 1 (composed before 1770)

in Le Brun / Bayon, Keyboard Sonatas. Da Capo Press Women Composers Series No 23 (1990)

MARIA SZYMANOWSKA (1789-1831)

Nocturne in Bb major*

Music for Piano, ed. Sylvia Glickman. Hildegard 09005 (1991)

FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL (1805-1847)

Melodie (Op 42 No 2)*

Selected Piano Works: Henle Urtext Edition 392

Vier Romische Klavierstucke (1840) Breitkopf EB 8164

CLARA SCHUMANN (1819-1896)

Romanze in A minor, Op 21 No 1

Selected Piano Works (Op 5, 6, 10, 11, 20, 21, -) Henle Urtext Edition 393

Romantic Piano Music (incl Op 3, 11, 14, 15, 21/1, posth) Willy Muller, Suddeutscher Musikverlag 2624

AGATHE BACKER-GRONDAHL (1847-1907)

Serenade, Op 15/1

Piano Music (Op 11/2 & 6, 15, 19, 20/1&3, 32/3, 36, 39, 45, 47/2, 55/10, 59/3, 61/1&2) ed Charles Slater. Da Capo Press Women Composeers Series No 9 (1982)

CECILE CHAMINADE (1857-1944)

Sonata in C minor (Op 21)

Three Piano Works (Op 21, 28, 35) Da Capo Press, Women COmposers Series No 2 (1979)

Automne - Etude de Concert

AMY BEACH (1867-1944)

Dreaming (Op 15 No 3)

Piano Music (Op 4, 6, 15, 28, 60, 81, 87, 107, 108, 116, 128) ed Sylvia Glickman. Da Capo Press Women Composers Series No 10 (1982)

The Life and Music of Amy Beach (incl Op 25/4-6, 28/2, 36/2-3, 47, 54/1-2, 645/2, 119/1&3) Creative Keyboard Publications MB94705

LILI BOULANGER (1893-1918)

D'um Vieux Jardin*

Trois Morceaux pour Piano (1914) Schirmer

ELISABETH LUTYENS (1906-1983)

Bagatelle, Op 49 No 1*

Five Bagatelles for Piano, Op 49 (1963) Schott 10893

GRAZYNA BACEWICZ (1909-1969)

Groteski No 1

Trzy Groteski (1935) Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, PWM Edition 9899

MADELEINE DRING (1923-1977)

Brown Study

Colour Suite (5 rhythmic studies for piano) (1963) Josef Weinberger

BARBARA HELLER (b 1936)

Toccatina

Zwei Klavierstucke (Toccatine; Tonkette) Furore Edition 101

SUSANNE ERDING (b 1953)

Chillan*

No 3 from Klaviersuite (1982)

Pieces marked * are included in the collection: Female Composers: 22 Piano Pieces from the 18th -20th century. Schott