HerStory: The Piano Collection

HerStory: The Piano Collection presents invaluable repertoire by remarkable female composers across the ages. This important collection is progressively graded, suitable for intermediate to advanced level players (approximately Grade 4 to Grade 8) and also features a piano duet and a trio for piano, clarinet and viola/cello. Each piece is accompaned by a fascinating ‘snapshot’ of the composer, providing invaluable insights into how they lived and composed, alongside quotes from them or about them. In addition there are suggestions of other pieces to try, personal observations from Karen Marshall and pedagogical activies and suggestions. Marguerite Balutet · Amy Beach · Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel · Cécile Chaminade · Louise Farrenc · Elisabetta de Gambarini · Elena Gnesina · Margarida Gonçalves · Francisca Gonzaga · Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre · Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel · Maria Park Hester · Augusta Holmès · Marie Jaëll · Josephine Lang · Inga Lærum Liebich · Marianna Martines · Emily Pedersen · Dora Pejačević · Florence Price · Florence P Rea · Clara Schumann · Ethel Smyth · Barbara Strozzi · Paula Szalit · Maria Szymanowska · Germaine Tailleferre · Nannie Louise Wright Karen Marshall is an experienced piano teacher with pupils ranging from five to 72 years. She is a teacher trainer for the British Dyslexia Assocation, a regular speaker and workshop presenter and has been widely published.