There are arguably more women composers today than ever before, but women composing music is by no means a new phenomenon. Why do we so rarely hear music by celebrated women composers of earlier eras?

Nobody laughed when an 11-year-old Mozart sat down at the keyboard to play what one critic described as “the longest and most difficult pieces with impressive precision.” Performing next, her younger ...

This year's ABC poll of Australia's favourite classical music, the Classic 100, revealed the most entries composed by women ever: 11 works by seven different composers. Every year the poll has a ...