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How many composers do you know?
How many works written by women have you heard?
Why among the "great composers" there is no woman?
Between Strings and Metals: Classical Music Contest for Young Performers of the Region of Murcia, answers these questions, inaugurating on March 27 the Exhibition 'Those Great Unknowns', organized by the Councilors of Youth and Equality of the City of Cartagena and the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena, in the Regional Assembly.
Among the authorities who attended the inauguration, were the Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez, the mayor of the municipal corporation, Ana Rama, the President of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, Rosa Peñalver, the Regional Deputy, Maria Rosario Montero, the First Secretary of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, Luis Francisco Fernández, and the Director of the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena, Mª Ángeles Bres.
From March 27 to April 9, 'Those Great Unknown People' will be exhibited in the Building of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, with visiting hours from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
After the opening of the exhibition, took place in the same Assembly, the Conference 'The great oblivion: Women and Women in Music', by Eduardo Molero, musicologist and professor of Music History at the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena, where the questions were answered: How many composers do you know? How many works written by women have you heard? Do you know what the role of women in music has been?
The conference was structured in three parts:
The first one analyzed the historical reasons why female composers are not present in the Western academic musical canon.
The second focused on the functions that women have traditionally had in the musical field.
The third highlighted some of the women composers from different periods in the history of music.
Really interesting conference praised by all the audience, who enjoyed the many curiosities with which Eduardo Molero was illustrating us, here some of them:
"Only 1% of the works that are performed in our country are composed of women", "There are only 4% of female directors in the world", "Since the middle ages there have been female composers, but they have always been invisible", "Nannerl Mozart ... how many of his works we will have heard without knowing ...", "Clara Schumann combined her musical activity with the care of her eight children and husband";
For Hegel, women "are not made for the highest sciences" ...;
"In the 80s the new musicology was born where feminist musicology is located with Susan McClary" ...;
"Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win the Rome Prize";
"The best way to pay homage to women composers is to listen to her works as we do with men".
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
An exhibition where a historical journey is made from the Middle Ages to the post-romanticism remembering those women who were key in the history of music, who apart from interpreters, although historians have traditionally ignored them, have also been composers.
The cultured music has been a private and exclusive preserve for men throughout history, proof of this is the scant information we have about female composers in this field.
'These Great Unknown' aims to rescue from silence some of those female figures representative of the world of music who were deliberately excluded from history books, and which has not been spoken until well into the twentieth century.
These are the women that Entre Cuerdas y Metales makes known through this exhibition: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Maddalena Casulana (ca. 1540/1544-ca. 1590), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729), Corona Schröter (1751-1802), Nannerl Mozart (1751-1829), Maria Theresa Von Paradis (1759-1824), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) ), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Soledad Bengoechea Gutiérrez (1849-1893), Amy Beach (1867-1944), Alma Mahler (1879-1964), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) .
The texts of the exhibition have been made by Eduardo Molero, Musicologist and professor of History of Music at the Music Conservatory of Cartagena.
ABOUT EDUARDO MOLERO
Eduardo Molero Illán is in possession of the Superior Degrees of Music in the specialties of Musicology and Clarinet, the Master of Music (Clarinet) by Codarts-University for the Arts of Rotterdam, and the Master's Degree in Musicology by the University of La Rioja.
As a clarinetist, he has performed in audiences of European geography as a soloist and as a member of chamber music and orchestral groups under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lutz Kohler, James MacMillan and Charles Neidich.
In the musicological field, he has developed several investigations related to clarinet and opera;
his research includes A clarinet for Bartók and Bernaola, and Creative process and interpretative practice in seventeenth-century opera, currently being published in the Italian musicological magazine "Il Saggiatore Musicale".
He has also lectured in the Netherlands and Spain, and has written notes to the program for institutions such as the Santander International Festival or the Rico-Rodríguez Foundation.
Eduardo has made these activities compatible with his teaching work as a clarinet teacher and other subjects in different centers of Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid;
He is currently a professor of History of Music at the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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