Listen to 1,000 Female Composers Thanks to Spotify!
30-10-15
Have you heard of Blessed Hildegard of Bingen? How about Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté? Well, when's the last time you listened to Sofia Gubaidulina? Or, let's say, amazing modern composers like... Misato Mochizuki, or Helena Tulve?
If you were unable to identify any of the names above, get thee to a classical music history class, stat. Or, if you're not able to devote a semester or two to languishing in the fine tunes of some of the world's most accomplished women composers, there's always Spotify.
Thanks to the blog Spotify Classical Playlists, you don't need a textbook or a professor to brush up on your knowledge of lady composers past. Just sync up with "1200 Years of Women Composers: From Hildegard To Higdon," press "play," and let over a century's worth of classic music pour over you like an extremely eclectic wave of symphonic bliss.
"It's a Spotify anthology of women composers, as well as a brief history of Western classical music," a description for the list reads. "It's really fascinating to hear music constantly reinventing itself from the monophonic and deeply spiritual medieval chant of Hildegard all the way into Higdon's lush and ultra-modern percussion concerto."
Are you excited yet? According to Spotify Classical Playlists, it will take you over 3 days to listen to all the 1,000 tracks. I had a chance to listen to some of the playlist and it's pretty awesome- it's great for getting work done and the end of the playlist will get you into the more modern ladies which is more dancey.
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