List of Illustrations

Francesca Caccini

Title page of Il Primo Libro delle Musiche 1618 (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Barbara Strozzi

Portrait by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630–40 (Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Bridgeman Images)

 

Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

Portrait by François de Troy (private collection)

 

Marianna Martines

Portrait by Anton von Maron (DEA/A. DAGLI ORI; Getty Images)

 

Fanny Hensel

Portrait by Wilhelm Hensel (© Pictorial Press Ltd; Alamy)

 

Clara Schumann

Portrait – Clara Wieck im ihrem 21. Lebensjahr – by Johann H. Schramm, 1840 (Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau)

Lili Boulanger

Photograph, 1913 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

 

Elizabeth Maconchy

Photograph, 1941 (Nicola LeFanu)