Pauline Oliveros

Composer Pauline Oliveros asked “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?” in a 1970 opinion piece for The New York Times.

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Anna Magdalena Bach

Australian music scholar Martin Jarvis argues that Johann Sebastian Bach’s six unaccompanied cello suites may have been composed by his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach.

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Rose Marie McCoy

Rose Marie Hinton McCoy broke into the white, male-dominated music business in the early 1950s to become a highly sought-after songwriter whose career lasted over six decades.

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Antonia Bembo

In the 1600s, Antonia Bembo fled Venice to escape her abusive husband – over three centuries later, her opera finally took the stage

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