San Antonio College Library

"Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. This book presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods...