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Maria Hester Park

Composer, Teacher, and Performer

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-981-5129-78-6
Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Erscheinungstermin: 07.10.2025
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This book offers a vital contribution to the study of women in classical music, focusing on composer Maria Hester Park. It addresses a significant gap in scholarship on late 18th- and early 19th-century women composers, examining Park’s life, keyboard works, influence within London’s cultural milieu, and professional networks within a male-dominated musical world. The book explores her performances, engagement with subscription publishing, and the societal expectations shaping female musical accomplishments, encouraging a broader recognition of women’s artistic legacies from this period.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789815129786
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-981-5129-78-6
  • Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
  • Erscheinungstermin: 07.10.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2025
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 392 g
  • Seiten: 158
  • Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 13 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

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1. "Beloved by All Who Had the Advantage of Knowing Her"1.1 Harmonies of Life: Marriage, Music, and Cultural Influence2. Performing and Teaching in the Heart of London's Cultural Life2.1 London's Concert Life2.2 Public Concert Performances2.3 Teaching the Nobility and Female Musical Training3. Composing for the Keyboard and the Cultivation of Female Accomplishments3.1 Maria Hester Park's Compositions3.2 The Keyboard Instrument4. Publishing with Subscription4.1 The Subscription Method4.2 The Subscription of Park's Works5. The Glees5.1 The English Glee5.2 Park's Glees6. The Concerto for the Pianoforte or Harpsichord6.1 The Keyboard Concerto6.2 Park's Concerto7. Solo Keyboard Sonatas Opp. 2, 4, and 77.1 The Sonata7.2 Sonatas Op. 27.3 Sonatas Op. 47.4 Sonata Op. 78. The Waltz, Divertimentos Op. 8, and Sonata Op. 128.1 The Waltz8.2 Six Easy Divertimentos for the Harp and Pianoforte, Op. 88.3 A Sonata for the Pianoforte, Op. 129. Accompanied Keyboard Works9.1 The Accompanied Keyboard Sonata9.2 Park's Divertimento9.3 The Sonatas Op. 19.4 The Sonatas Op. 139.5 The Sociological Factor9.6 The Accompanied Sonata and the "New Woman"10. Maria Hester Park and Her Women Composer Colleagues10.1 Women Composers in England10.2 The Confusion with Maria F. Parke10.3 The "Woman Composer" Question RevisitedBibliography