List of female composers by birth year

The following is a list of female composers, ordered by their year of birth.^[1]

Female composers are also listed alphabetically at List of female composers by name.

1 until 1500
2 1500
3 1600
4 1650
5 1700
6 1750
7 1800
8 1850
9 1900
10 1910
11 1920
12 1930
13 1940
14 1950
15 1960
16 1970
17 1980
18 Unknown
19 See also
20 Source
21 References
22 Further reading
23 External links

until 1500

Sappho (born c. 612 BCE)
Xosroviduxt (fl. early 8th century)
Sahakduxt (fl. early 8th century)
Kassia (c.810–before 867)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Azalais de Porcairagues (fl. mid-12th century)
Tibors (fl. mid-12th century)
Marie de France (1175?–1225?)
Alamanda de Castelnau (fl. second half of 12th century)
Maria de Ventadorn (fl. late 12th century)
Comtessa de Dia (more commonly as Beatriz de Dia, fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries)
Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)
Castelloza (fl. early 13th century)
Dame Margot (fl. 13th century)
Duchess of Lorraine (fl. 13th century)
Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century)
Dame Maroie (fl. 13th century)
Garsenda de Proensa (fl. early 13th century)

1500

Anne Boleyn (1507–1536)
Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554)
Maddalena Casulana (c.1540–c.1590)
Paola Massarenghi (fl. 1565–1585)
Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566, fl. 1611)
Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575–after 1620)
Caterina Assandra (1580–1632)
Adriana Basile (c. 1580–c. 1640)
Francesca Caccini (1587–1640?)
Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662)
Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?)
Claudia Rusca (1593–1676)

1600

1650

1700

1750

1800

1850

1900

Carmelina Delfin (c. 1900–after 1948)
Lola Castegnaro (1900–1979)
Zdenka Ticharich (1900–1979)
Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974)
Dorothy James (1901–1982)
Emmy Wegener (1901–1973)
Hedy Frank-Autheried (1902–1979)
Lūcija Garūta (1902–1977)
Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982)
Freda Swain (1902–1985)
Rose Thisse-Derouette (1902–1989)
Claude Arrieu (1903–1990)
María Enma Botet Dubois (born 1903)
Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998)
Lillian Fuchs (1903–1991)
Jessie Furze (1903–1984)
Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (born 1903)
Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)
Joanídia Sodré (1903–1975)
Martha Alter (1904–1976)
Dinorá de Carvalho (1904–1980)
Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)
Dorothy Parke (1904–1990)
Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
Andrée Bonhomme (1905–1982)
Ulric Cole (1905–1992)
Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990)
Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991)
Claire Delbos (1906–1959)
Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)
Zara Levina (1906–1976)
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
Berta Alves de Sousa (1906–1997)
Louise Talma (1906–1996)
Grace Williams (1906–1977)
Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908–1993)
Lora Aborn (1907–2005)
Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993)
Koharik Gazarossian (1907–1967)
Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
Roberta Martin (1907–1969)
Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (1907–1995)
Roberta Bitgood (born 1908)
Jean Coulthard (1908–2000)
Helen Glatz (1908–1996)
Joan Mary Last (1908-?)
Trude Rittmann (1908–2005)
Alice Samter (1908–2004)
Ida Vivado (1908–1989)
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
Maria Dziewulska (1909–2006)
Minna Keal (1909–1999)
Ljubica Marić (1909–2003)
Dana Suesse (1909–1987)

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

Maria de Alvear (born 1960)
Sonia Bo (born 1960)
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (born 1960)
Annie Gosfield (born 1960)
Priti Paintal (born 1960)
Rachel Portman (born 1960)
Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
Hanna Kulenty (born 1961)
Michiru Oshima (born 1961)
Lourdes Perez (born 1961)
Isabel Soveral (born 1961)
Karen Tanaka (born 1961)
Julie Giroux (born 1961)
Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)
Victoria Poleva (born 1962)
Rosephanye Powell (born 1962)
Laura Schwendinger (born 1962)
Alex Shapiro (born 1962)
Chen Shihui (born 1962)
Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962)
Allison Cameron (born 1963)
Keiko Fujiie (born 1963)
Veronika Krausas (born 1963)
Isabel Mundry (born 1963)
Halyna Ovcharenko (born 1963)
Lucia Ronchetti (born 1963)
Calliope Tsoupaki (born 1963)
Hana Vejvodová (1963–1994)
Debbie Wiseman (born 1963)
Michiru Yamane (born 1963)
Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964)
Yoko Kanno (born 1964)
Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964)
Sarah Peebles (born 1964)
Annette Schlünz (born 1964)
Augusta Read Thomas (born 1964)
Mariana Villanueva (born 1964)
Carin Bartosch Edström (sv) (born 1965)
Zana Clarke (born 1965)
Evelyn Glennie (born 1965)
Yuki Kajiura (born 1965)
Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 1965)
Georgia Spiropoulos (born 1965)
Liza Lim (born 1966)
Gráinne Mulvey (born 1966)
Rebecca Saunders (born 1967)
Yoko Shimomura (born 1967)
Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967)
Laura Andel (born 1968)
Vanessa Lann (born 1968)
Olga Neuwirth (born 1968)
Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968)

1970

Graziella Concas (born 1970)
Marina Leonardi (born 1970)
Arlene Sierra (born 1970)
Aleksandra Vrebalov (born 1970)
Malika Kishino (de) (born 1971)
Soe Tjen Marching (born 1971)
Christine Aufderhaar (de) (born 1972)
Amber Ferenz (born 1972)
Gabriela Lena Frank (born 1972)
Hiba Kawas (born 1972)
Analia Llugdar (born 1972)
Deborah Lurie (born 1972)
Helena Tulve (born 1972)
Lera Auerbach (born 1973)
Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974)
Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)
Kati Agócs (born 1975)
Sia Furler (born 1975)
Svitlana Azarova (born 1976)
Eunshin Jung (de) (born 1976)
Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976)
Britta Byström (sv) (born 1977)
Karola Obermüller (de) (born 1977)
Kerry Andrew (born 1978)
Vanessa-Mae (born 1978)
Anna Meredith (born 1978)
Emily Howard (born 1979)

1980

Anna Clyne (born 1980)
Ann Eysermans (nl) (born 1980)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (born 1980)
Dobrinka Tabakova (born 1980)
Anne Cawrse (born 1981)
Helen Grime (born 1981)
Diana Rotaru (ro) (born 1981)
Charlotte Bray (born 1982)
Ai Otsuka (born 1982)
Donika Rudi (born 1982)
Reena Esmail (born 1983)
Sarah Horick (born 1984)
Sasha Siem (born 1984)
Cristina Spinei (born 1984)
Dafina Zeqiri (born 1984)
Kathryn Salfelder (nl) (born 1987)
Bàrbara Ardanuy i Queldra (ca) (born 1988)

Unknown

Sussan Deyhim (born in the 20th Century)
Claire Liddell (born in the 20th Century)
Amy X Neuburg (living; born in the 20th Century)
Winifred Phillips (living; born in the 20th Century)
Yuka Tsujiyoko (born in the 20th Century)

Source

List partially created using Grove's "Explore" function, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed September 23, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).

References

^ Print sources include the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, ed. by Julie Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel (New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c1995), and Aaron I. Cohen, International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (NY: Books & Music, 1987).

External links

List of female composers by birth year

Contents

until 1500

1500

1600

1650

1700

1750

1800

1850

1900

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

Unknown

See also

Source

References

Further reading

External links