This year’s BBC Proms continues an encouraging trend by featuring numerous living women composers and new commissions. Yet one area remains comparatively unchanged. Within the nineteenth-century Romantic orchestral repertoire, the familiar names still dominate: Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mahler, Berlioz and Scriabin, while composers such as Clara Schumann, Louise Farrenc and Emilie Mayer remain rare in … Continue reading “Women composers are finally being rediscovered – so why is the Romantic canon still so hard to change?”
