DEBORAH HAYES
Musician • Musicologist
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Deborah Hayes is a professor emerita and former associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her publications include studies of music and musicians of the eighteenth century and more recent times, including historical women composers.
The Classic Women pages and linked documents provide an overview of European and American women whose music
dates from 1750 to the early 1800s, the Classic
era. Nine pages are devoted to these composers
active in the late 1700s :
— Maria Barthélemon (Polly Young)
— Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis
— Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy
— Françoise Elizabeth Desfossez
— Maria Hester Reynolds Park
— Maria F. Parke
— Jane Savage
— Ann Valentine
I. The late 1700s–early 1800s
II. The early 1700s (Rameau’s theoretical wri-tings, Scalfi Marcello’s cantatas)
III. The 20th and 21st centuries (Ruth Shaw Wylie, Gabriela Lena Frank, Peter Sculthorpe, Peggy Glanville-Hicks)
IV. Reviews of books, recordings, and concerts on the Different Methods of Accompaniment . . . with the Plan for a New Method (both 1974, out-of-print) are available (free) in .pdf upon request.
think - Clockwise from upper left: Maria Theresa Agnesi, Wilhelmina von Bayreuth,
Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, Francesca LeBrun, Marianne Martines, Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. www.wophil.org