Composers of the week: From 25 to 31 July

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Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019.

Check here the composers from this week (25 to 31 July) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!

JULY 25

MELINDA KISTÉTÉNYI - HUNGARY

Born 25 July

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BERTHA STANFIELD - USA

Born 25 July

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JULY 26

JESSIE SEYMOUR IRVINE - UK

Born 26 July

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FIONA FRANK - UK

Born 26 July

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JULY 27

BARBARA THOMPSON - UK

Born 27 July

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ANA SEARA - PORTUGAL

Born 27 July

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JULY 28

ANNE LAUBER - SWITZERLAND

Born 28 July

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SONJA BEETS - THE NETHERLANDS

Born 28 July

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JULY 29

MARTA PTASZYNSKA - POLAND

Born 29 July

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PAN SHIJI - TAIWAN
Born 29 July

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JULY 30

JULIA TSENOVA - BULGARIA

Born 30 July

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ALEXINA LOUIE - CANADA

Born 30 July

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JULY 31

LEILEI TIAN - CHINA

Born 31 July

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FLORENCIA DI CONCILIO - URUGUAY
Born 31 July

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Composers of the day: July 30

COMPOSERS OF THE DAY:

JULY 30

JULIA TSENOVA - BULGARIA

Born 30 July

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ALEXINA LOUIE - CANADA

Born 30 July

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Album of the week #27: En amor duro, by Maria de Alvear and Hildegard Kleeb

Our new ALBUM OF THE WEEK is...

En amor duro, by Maria de Alvear and Hildegard Kleeb

Check out this album by the Spanish composer Maria de Alvear and the Swiss pianist Hildegard Kleeb.

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Happy listening!

About the album:

This landmark 1991 work by Spanish composer Maria De Alvear is perhaps her most haunting, a sheer mystery in its stark beauty. Written in five movements that are virtually indistinguishable from one another, De Alvear's score is, for the performer, either a detective story with few clues, or a work of spiritual process creating itself in a void where composer, performer, and listener all commune on a level that exists only in the sacred and/or erotic unconscious. The music here is so sparsely composed, the range so narrow, you would swear upon first listen that little if anything was happening (much in the same way that first-time listeners are confused by the work of Morton Feldman, though De Alvear's work couldn't be more different). But this is the first of many veiled truths inherent in her work.

Source: Thom Jurek - All Music

JULY 29

MARTA PTASZYNSKA - POLAND
Born 29 July

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PAN SHIJI - TAIWAN
Born 29 July

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Composers of the day: July 28

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JULY 28

ANNE LAUBER - SWITZERLAND

Born 28 July

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SONJA BEETS - THE NETHERLANDS

Born 28 July

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