Where are the female composers?

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Fr´ed´eric Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterparts? Using novel data on over 17,000 composers who lived from the sixth […] The post Where are the female composers? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.