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)

‍   — Cecilia Maria Barthélemon

‍   — Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

‍   — Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy

‍   — Françoise Elizabeth Desfossez

‍   — Hélène de Montgeroult

‍   — Maria Hester Reynolds Park

‍   — Maria F. Parke

‍   — Jane Savage

‍   — Ann Valentine


English translations of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s The Publications page has four sections:

     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.


Contact Deborah Hayes

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