Composers of the week: From 17 to 23 October

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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 (17 to 23 October) and learn more about these amazing women who made/are making history in music!

OCTOBER 17

ALMA BAZEL ANDROZZO - USA

Born 17 October

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ANNA GARDNER GOODWIN - USA

Born 17 October

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OCTOBER 18

MARIA MANNONE - ITALY
Born 18 October

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HELENA CÁNOVAS PARÉS - SPAIN

Born 18 October

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OCTOBER 19

SARAH COLLINS - UK
Born 19 October

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ELSA CALCAGNO - ARGENTINA

Born 19 October

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OCTOBER 20

BELLE VAN ZUYLEN - THE NETHERLANDS
Born 20 October

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ELODIE LAUTEN - FRANCE

Born 18 October

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OCTOBER 21

LUNA ALCALAY - CROATIA

Born 21 October

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SHULAMIT RAN - ISRAEL

Born 21 October

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OCTOBER 22

PASCALE LAZARUS - FRANCE

Born 22 October

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HELEN BUCHHOLTZ - LUXEMBURG

Born 22 October

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OCTOBER 23

UNA MABEL BOURNE - CHINA

Born 23 October

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ISABELLE ABOULKER - FRANCE

Born 23 October

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23 OCTOBER 2019

MIRIAM GIDEON - USA

BORN 23 OCTOBER

Miriam Gideon (October 23, 1906 – June 18, 1996) was an American composer.

She was born in Greeley, Colorado, on October 23, 1906. She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Lazare Saminsky and at his suggestion also composition with Roger Sessions, after which she abandoned tonality and wrote in a freely atonal or extended post-tonal style.

Gideon composed a lot of vocal music, setting texts by Francis Thompson, Christian Morgenstern, Anne Bradstreet, Norman Rosten, Serafin, Joaquín Quintero and others. Selected compositions include Lyric Piece for Strings (1942), Mixco (1957), Adon Olom, Fortunato, Sabbath Morning Service, Friday Evening Service, and Of Shadows Numberless (1966).

She was the second woman inducted into American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975, following Louise Talma who was inducted in 1974. She died in New York City.

Gideon's 1958 opera Fortunato, edited by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, was published as part of the Recent Researches in American Music series by A-R Editions in 2013. Jensen-Moulton has published extensively on Gideon, including a number of essays available online, including "Setting an 'Unused Poem': Miriam Gideon’s 'Böhmischer Krystall' " for the American Composers Alliance.

Source: Wikipedia and Composers.com

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Of Shadows Numberless by Miriam Gideon

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ANDELKA BEGO-SIMUNIC  - BOSNIA
BORN 23 OCTOBER

Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 23 October 1941) is a Bosnian composer. She teaches at the Sarajevo Music Academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She studied composition at the academy under Ivan Brkanović and Miroslav Špiler, earning a master's degree in 1973. Afterwards, she taught theory at the secondary music school in Sarajevo. She joined the staff of the academy in 1975, and later became assistant (1985) and full professor at the academy, where her students include Igor Karaca. From 1986-92 she was president of the Bosnian composers’ association (1986–1992) and one of the principal organizers of the Days of Musical Creation festival.

Her music is mostly neo-classical in style, influenced by Sergei Prokofiev's extended tonality and treatment of form, with elements of neo-romanticism, particularly in the style of Franz Liszt, and early Expressionism. Her works occasionally refer to Bosnian folklore.

Source: Wikipedia

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Uzmorje za violinu i violu by Anđelka Bego Šimunić

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