Can women compose as well as men?

[Siberian Husky]

i...

well this is what i can play off the top of my head..memorized and so forth

Moonlight movements 1 and 2
Chopin preludes op 28 no 4..and no 20

and what im working on

Mozarts K545
CHopin Nocturne in eflat major (9/2)
a neat little cakewalk by debussy
and started on pathetique a few days ago

i'v been playing for...almost 6 months now...

but im out of commision right onw due to  bad wrist..so i waste my days on the forum lalalala

[dinosaurtales]

OK After ignoring most of the posts on this topic, I will tip in - you were referring to the baroque, classical, romantic, and early 20th century, right?  During most of this time, women were taught about music, but it considered a no-no (socially speaking) to actually do music as a career.  Some more "outgoing" women did it anyway, like Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelsson, but it was mostly a man's game back then.  I am sure it's different now, at least in these parts.

[lostinidlewonder]

OK After ignoring most of the posts on this topic, I will tip in - you were referring to the baroque, classical, romantic, and early 20th century, right? During most of this time, women were taught about music, but it considered a no-no (socially speaking) to actually do music as a career. Some more "outgoing" women did it anyway, like Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelsson, but it was mostly a man's game back then. I am sure it's different now, at least in these parts.

You couldn't be outgoing enough to encourage the univeristy to take you in and teach you if you where a woman back in the old days. So women just had no equal chance as men to learn and develop their ability with music. And I really doubt if Clara Schumann would have been so prominent if she had not been the spouse of such a famous composer who would have taught her a lot himself.

[pianonut]

they probably taught each other a lot.  if i remember correctly, clara's father (Wieck) was a respected teacher and was sought out by schumann himself.  when he saw her for the first time, she was quite young (and extremely talented already).  the artistic schumann probably taught clara more about love, and she about musical interpretation.  i like how they worked together and helped each other.  and, how schumann wrote music for her, personally, expressing his poetic side.  she, playing it for him, since he had injured several fingers (whether by mercurial treatments/ and consequent paralysis, or contraption he built to strengthen fingers, or both). 

[musicsdarkangel]

Females menstruate.


I bet that if we taught all of our daughters to play the piano, they could compose music that is more F'N FURIOUS than Totentanz