Explore Music by Women Composers

Boosey & Hawkes is proud to publish works by the world’s leading composers, including many of the most prominent women creators of the past century.

Peruse our wide catalogue of music written by women composers, from operas to orchestral and chamber works that range across 125 years of classical music.

If you would like to discuss repertoire plans featuring any of our composers on the list below, please contact your nearest B&H Promotion Department:
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b.1947 Baku, Azerbaijan
Crossing II ... Silk Road ... Nasimi-Passion ...

>Listen to Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's music

b.1973 Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union
The Little Mermaid … Icarus … Arctica: Symphony No.4 …

>Listen to Lera Auerbach's music

b.1982 New Orleans, USA
Requiem ... White Gleam of Our Bright Star ... Syzygy ...

>Listen to Courtney Bryan's music

b.1961 Seoul, South Korea
Violin Concerto ... Alice in Wonderland  ... Gougalon ...

>Listen to Unsuk Chin's music

b.1886 London, UK; d.1979 New York City, USA
Piano Trio … Three Old English Songs …

>Listen to Rebecca Clarke's music

b.1980 London, UK
Within Her Arms ... Night Ferry ... This Midnight Hour ...

>Listen to Anna Clyne's music

b.1993 Vienna, Austria
Azinheira … mastering silence … Stehen

b.1950 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Earthly Life … Secret Way … Garden of Dreams …

>Listen to Elena Firsova's music

b.1931 Christopol, Soviet Union
Offertorium … Jetzt immer Schnee … St John Passion …

>Listen to Sofia Gubaidulina's music

b.1872, Russia; d.1940, Soviet Union
Symphony in B minor … Cello Sonata No.2 … In the midst of nature …

>Listen to Leokadiya Kashperova's music

b.1957 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Clocks ... Zoom and Zip ... Wild Swans Suite ...

>Listen to Elena Kats-Chernin's music

b.1939 Hartford, USA
All in Good Time ... Millefoglie ... Voyants

>Listen to Barbara Kolb's music

b.1923 Berlin, Germany; d.2016 Berlin, Germany
Concerto … Grasshoppers … Cantata … Wind Quintet …

>Listen to Ursula Mamlok's music

b.1994 Wolverhampton, UK
The Yellow Wallpaper ... Upon Weightless Wings ... The Imagined Forest ...

>Listen to Grace-Evangeline Mason's music

b.1942 New York City, USA
Astronaut Anthem ... Possible Sky ... Stringsongs ...

>Listen to Meredith Monk's music

b.1968 Graz, Austria
locus...doublure...solus ... Lost Highway ... torsion: transparent variation ...

>Listen to Olga Neuwirth's music

b.1964 Mexico City, Mexico
Kauyumari ... Altar de Cuerda ... Antrópolis ...

>Listen to Gabriela Ortiz's music

b.1905 Stevenage, UK; d.1987 Stevenage, UK
Sweet Suffolk Owl … The Lake Isle of Innisfree … Songs of the Women of Britain …

>Listen to Elizabeth Poston's music

b.1978, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Mirroring Contrapunctus XII ... Lichtscherben ... _Labyrinthe du temps ...

>Listen to Aziza Sadikovas's music

b.1938 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
L'Invitation au voyage … Ziguidor … Lô …

>Listen to Tona Scherchen's music

b.1956 Hamburg, Germany
Hundert Komma Null ... Silence Moves I and II (with Helmut Oehring) ... Die Gänsemagd ...

>Listen to Iris ter Schiphorst's music

b.1964 Dessau, Germany
Fadensonnen ... SOL-STITIUM ... TagNachtTraumstaub ...

>Listen to Annette Schlünz's music

b.1858 Sidcup, UK; d.1944 Woking, UK
Der Wald …

>Listen to Ethel Smyth's music

b.1968 Belgrade, Serbia
Svadba - Wedding ... Evta ... Géométrie sentimentale ...

>Listen to Ana Sokolovic's music

b.1919 Petrograd, Russia; d.2006 St Petersburg, Russia
Grand Duet … Composition No.2: Dies irae … Symphony No.5: Amen …

>Listen to Galina Ustvolskaya's music

b.1970 Helsinki, Finland
Jong … Verdigris … Flounce … Hele …

>Listen to Lotta Wennäkoski's music

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