Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Women composers : a cinematic search for their lives / by Kyra Steckeweh & Tim van Beveren ; producers, Kyra Steckeweh, Tim van Beveren ; co-producer, Karla Viebahn ; executive producer, TVBmedia Productions.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : Film Movement, [2020]

Description:

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

all regions

Summary:

"When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realised that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research in archives, libraries, and publishing houses quickly brought to light a variety of remarkable piano pieces that have been buried in history and rarely performed ... the focus of her piano recitals and recordings has since shifted to the music of women composers, particularly Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel ... The film "Women Composers" highlights the historical and personal circumstances under which these three remarkable women created their works in the 19th and early 20th centuries"--Distributor's website.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Bonis, Mél.

Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918.

Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847.

Mayer, Emilie, 1812-1883.

Women composers -- France -- Biography.

Women composers -- Germany -- Biography.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.