Mysterious muses Ensemble Correspondances + lecture Jan Van den Bossche

Forgotten music for women from the Baroque and Renaissance 

In France too, composers such as Antoine Boësset and Louis Nicolas Clérambault wrote works for women who remain anonymous in the annals of music history. In this program, Sébastien Daucé unlocks the treasure chest in which these jewels have been hidden for centuries to present these magnificent works to the public. Join the lecture Early Music by Jan Van den Bossche at 7 p.m.

Find the women

One of the first composers in Western music history was a woman: Hildegard of Bingen, who lived in the 12th century. Despite the resurgence of interest in her music in recent times, women play a secondary role in the canon of music history. They are either subjects (Eurydice, Carmen), muses (Beethoven’s ‘immortal beloved’) or virtuoso singers like the divas in Handel’s operas. But female composers are hard to find. And if women did compose, they often did so anonymously or under the pseudonym of a man. This lecture uncovers the hidden stories of women in music history, from the ‘Concerto delle donne’ in Ferrara to the compositions of Fanny Mendelssohn.