Tag: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
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Link Round-Up! March 1, 2022 — Happy Women’s History Month!
Instead of our weekly news round-ups, we will be offering more frequent updates and commentary throughout this exciting and important month! Just in time for women’s History Month, the Met Opera made their annual statement that women cannot and do not compose opera. “In our long history, there have been two exceptions,” said the imaginary…
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Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2020
News and music to start your week! Leah Broad writes for The Guardian about the importance in remembering all histories in the retelling of music history. She particularly champions the life of and work of Dame Ethel Smyth, pictured above, throughout her article – but as just one example of the multitude of voices that…
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Beyond Mrs. Bach
The classical music world has been all a-tizzy in recent days about Martin Jarvis’ work linking Anna Magdalena Bach to J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites. The story first made headlines in 2008, and again last week now that the theory is explored in a film. The responses to the very idea that Bach’s highly trained wife, who often copied Bach’s…
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Today is the 346th birthday of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. Born in Paris March 17, 1665, was a child prodigy who, at the age of five, gave a harpsichord concert for King Louis XIV. She continued as a court musician until her marriage in 1684, but continued to give concerts and teach, becoming a…