Historical Female Composers for Clarinet

Question 1

Sonata for A Clarinet and Piano

Answer 1

Alice Mary SMITH : 1839-1884

Question 2

Sonatina for A Clarinet and Piano

First known female clarinet soloist. German.

Also played violin, and piano.

Answer 2

Caroline KRAEMER SCHLEICHER 1794-1873

Question 3

Clarinet Concerto

Italitain Composer

1802-1858

Answer 3

Marianna Bottini

Question 4

Two really great pieces for clarinet and piano. Very catchy:

Invocation, Air slave

French

1828- 1907

Answer 4

Clémence de Grandval

aka

Marie Grandval

Question 5

1670-1710

Italian

Abramo nell’addormentarsi (abramo getting sleep) from the Oratorio “Il sacrifizio di Abramo” (The Sacrifice of Abramo) for Tenor, two Soprano Chalumeaux, Strings and Harpsichord –

Answer 5

Camilla DE ROSSI

Question 6

Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano

1847-1903

Prolific French Composer of Irish Decent

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote of — in the journal Harmonie et Mélodie: “Like children, women have no idea of obstacles, and their willpower breaks all barriers. — is a woman, an extremist.” Like other female composers from the nineteenth century including Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, — published some of her earlier works under a male pseudonym (“Hermann Zenta”) because women in European society at that time were not taken seriously as artists and were discouraged from publishing.

Studied with Cesar Franc

Famous Renoir painting of her daughters

Answer 6

Augusta Holmes

Holmés

Question 7

Divertimento for Piano, Clarinette, Viola and Cello

Answer 7

Anna Amalia von SACHSEN WEIMAR :