Did Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc...have female composer peers? (lemmy.world)

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I recently realized you never hear of old-timey/classical women composers. Surely they were around?

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[-] Tiral@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I forgot who it was, but one of them had a female student they wanted to bone. So they gave her stupid easy parts because she wasn't that good. Then she made it clear she wasn't interested and he gave her an actual part everyone else was doing then kicked her out of the school because she sucked.

Edit. Looked it up because it was bugging me. It was Beethoven and the girl was Therese Malfatti. They think he named Für Elise actually Für Therese after her, but he had super sloppy hand writing and people thought it was Elise.

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