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Until recently it was widely accepted that female composers avoided the symphonic form – but this assumption could not be further from the truth. Here are some of the greatest symphonies ever written by female composers
The Leupold Foundation announces a new book, Pioneers in American Organ Music 1860–1920, The New England Classicists (LE300003, $69), by Barbara Owen. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of the beginning of classical organ music in the United States with biographies of nine of the first and most prominent American composers for the organ: John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, W. Eugene Thayer, George E. Whiting, Samuel B. Whitney, W. Arthur Foote, George W. Chadwick, Horatio W. Parker, and Henry M. Dunham.
Stephen Pinel reviews Barbara Owen's book, Pioneers in American Music, 1860−1920, The New England Classicists, from Leupold Editions.