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[[File:Julius Giere - Clara Wieck im Alter von 15 Jahren (Lithographie 1835).jpg|thumb|19th-century composer and pianist [[Clara Schumann]].]]

Women [[composer]]s of [[Western classical music]] are disproportionately absent from the music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the patriarchical [[Western canon]], even though many women have composed music.{{efn|1=Print sources include the ''Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers'', edited by Julie Anne Sadie and [[Rhian Samuel]] (New York; London: W. W. Norton, c.1995), Barbara Garvey Jackson, ''"Say Can You Deny Me": A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries'' (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994), and Aaron I. Cohen, ''[[International Encyclopedia of Women Composers]]'' (New York: Books & Music, 1987).}}

The reasons for women's absence are various. The musicologist [[Marcia Citron]] writing in 1990 noted that many works of musical history and anthologies of music had very few, or sometimes no, references to and examples of music written by women.<ref>Citron (1990), 102–103.</ref> Among the reasons for historical under-representation of women composers Citron has adduced problems of access to musical education<ref>Citron (1990), 105–106.</ref> and to the male hierarchy of the musical establishment (performers, conductors, impresarios etc.);<ref>Citron (1990), 106–107.</ref> condescending attitudes of male reviewers, and their association of women composers with "salon music" rather than music of the concert platform;<ref>Citron (1990), 108–110.</ref> and denial of female creativity in the arts by philosophers such as [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] and [[Immanuel Kant]].<ref>Citron (1990), 111–112.</ref> All this needs to be considered in the perspective of restrictions against women's advancement in cultural, economic and political spheres over a long historical period.<ref>Citron (1990), 112–113.</ref>

Since such discrimination against women composers can be considered in the context of general societal attitudes about [[gender]] or perceived roles of men and women, many [[Musicology|musicologists]] and critics have come to incorporate [[gender studies]] in assessing the history and practice of the art.

Some notable Western composers include: [[Hildegard von Bingen]] (1098–1179), a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath; [[Fanny Mendelssohn]] (1805–1847); [[Clara Schumann]] (1819–1896); [[Ethel Smyth]] (1858–1944); [[Amy Beach]] (1867–1944); [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]] (1886–1979); [[Germaine Tailleferre]] (1892–1983); [[Lili Boulanger]] (1893–1918); [[Sofia Gubaidulina]] (1931–2025); [[Kaija Saariaho]] (1952–2023); and [[Judith Weir]] (born 1954 and the first woman to hold the office<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-22 |title=Queen's new composer Judith Weir hails 'boss' |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13171288.queens-new-composer-judith-weir-hails-boss/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Herald |language=en}}</ref> of [[Master of the King's Music]]).

Women composers are also listed alphabetically at [[List of women composers by name]].
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==Before 16th century==
[[File:Hildegard von Bingen.jpg|thumb|Illumination from Hildegard's ''[[Scivias]]'' (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to teacher [[Volmar (monk)|Volmar]]]]
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* [[Hildegard of Bingen]] (1098–1179)
* [[Herrad of Landsberg]] (c. 1130–1195)
* [[Azalais de Porcairagues]] ({{abbrlink|fl.|floruit}} mid-12th century)
* [[Iseut de Capio]] (c. 1140–?)
* [[Tibors de Sarenom]] (fl. mid-12th century)
* [[Marie de France]] (1175?–1225?)
* [[Alamanda de Castelnau]] (fl. second half of 12th century)
* [[Maria de Ventadorn]] (fl. late 12th century)
* [[Beatritz de Dia]] (fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries)
* [[Blanche of Castile]] (1188–1252)
* [[Castelloza]] (fl. early 13th century)
* [[Dame Margot (trouvère)|Dame Margot]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Gertrude of Dagsburg]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Maroie de Dregnau de Lille]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Dame Maroie]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Sainte des Prez]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Lorete]] (fl. 13th century)
* [[Garsenda de Proensa]] (fl. early 13th century)
* [[Birgitta of Sweden]] (c. 1303 – c. 1373)
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==16th century==
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* [[Gaspara Stampa]] (1523–1554)
* [[Maddalena Casulana]] (c. 1540 – c. 1590)
* [[Paola Massarenghi]] (fl. 1565–1585)
* [[Lucia Quinciani]] (born c. 1566, fl. 1611)
* [[Claudia Sessa]] (c. 1570 – between 1613 and 1619)
* [[Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli]] (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
* [[Vittoria Aleotti]] (c.1575–''after'' 1620)
* [[Sulpitia Cesis]] (1577–''after'' 1619)
* [[Adriana Basile]] (c. 1580 – c. 1640)
* [[Francesca Caccini]] (1587–1640?)
* [[Caterina Assandra]] (c. 1590–''after'' 1618)
* [[Alba Trissina]] (c. 1590–''after'' 1638)
* [[Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana]] (1590–1662)
* [[Settimia Caccini]] (1591–1638?)
* [[Claudia Rusca]] (1593–1676)
* [[Mlle Bocquet]] (early 17th century–''after'' 1661)
* [[Clementine de Bourges]] (unknown date – 1562)
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==17th century==
[[File:Bernardo Strozzi 001.jpg|thumb|[[Barbara Strozzi]], sometime between {{circa|1730–1740}}]]
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* [[Chiara Margarita Cozzolani]] (1602–1678)
* [[Leonora Duarte]] (1610–1678)
* [[Leonora Baroni]] (1611–1670)
* [[Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (1613–1676)
* [[Francesca Campana]] (c. 1615–1665)
* [[Barbara Strozzi]] (1619–1677)
* [[Isabella Leonarda]] (1620–1704)
* [[Mlle Bocquet]] (early 17th century–''after'' 1660)
* [[Lady Mary Dering]] (1629–1704)
* [[Maria Francesca Nascinbeni]] (c. 1640–1680)
* [[Esther Elizabeth Velkiers]] (1640–''after'' 1685)
* [[Amalia Catharina|Countess Amalia Catharina of Waldeck]] (1640–1697)
* [[Antonia Bembo]] (c. 1640–c. 1720)
* [[Maria Cattarina Calegari]] (1644–1675)
* [[Marieta Morosina Priuli]] (fl. 1665)
* [[Mme Sicard]] (fl.1678)
* [[Rosa Giacinta Badalla]] (1660–1710)
* [[Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi]] (1662–1708)
* [[Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre]] (1665–1729)
* [[Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou]] (1679–1745)
* [[Maria Anna de Raschenau]] (fl. 1690s–1703)
* [[Anna Maria della Pietà]] (c. 1696–1782)
* [[Michielina della Pietà]] (''fl. c.'' 1701–1744)
* [[Caterina Benedicta Grazianini]] (fl. 1705–15 [b.ca.1685])
* [[Camilla de Rossi]] (fl. 1707–1710)
* [[Julie Pinel]] (fl. 1710–1737)
* [[Maria Margherita Grimani]] (fl. 1713–1718 [b.ca.1690])
* [[Mrs Philarmonica]] (fl. 1715)
* [[Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault]] (1695–1791)
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==1701–1750==
[[File:Antoine Pesne hofdame ; Prinzessin Amalia von Preussen als Amazone.jpg|thumb|upright|Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia]]
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* [[Rosanna Scalfi Marcello]] (1704 or 1705–after 1742)
* [[Zanetta Farussi]] (1707–1776)
* [[Wilhelmine of Bayreuth]] (1709–1758)
* [[Mlle Guédon de Presles]] (early 18th century–1754)
* [[Barbara of Portugal]] (1711–1758)
* [[Agata Della Pietà]] (1712–1769)
* [[Luise Gottsched|Luise Adelgunda Gottsched]] (1713–1762)
* [[Santa della Pietà]] (c. 1715?–after 1774) (''fl. c.'' 1725–1750)
* [[Philippine Charlotte of Prussia]] (1716–1801)
* [[Mlle Duval]] (1718–after 1775)
* [[Elisabeth de Haulteterre]] (c. 1720?–after 1768) (fl. 1737–1768)
* [[Maria Teresa Agnesi]] (1720–1795)
* [[Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia|Anna Amalia of Prussia]] (1723–1787)
* [[Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria|Maria Antonia of Bavaria]] (1724–1780)
* [[Diamante Medaglia Faini]] (1724–1770)
* [[Miss Davis]] (c. 1726–''after'' 1755)
* [[Elisabetta de Gambarini]] (1731–1765)
* [[Josina van Aerssen]] (Baroness Boetzelaer) (1733–1787)
* [[Mme Papavoine]] (born c. 1735, fl. 1755–61)
* [[Hélène-Louise Demars]] (''b. c.'' 1736)
* [[Anna Bon]] (born 1738–1739)
* [[Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] (1739–1807)
* [[Mlle Guerin]] (born c. 1739, fl. 1755)
* [[Isabelle de Charrière]] (Belle van Zuylen) (1740–1805)
* [[Elisabeth Olin]] (1740–1828)
* [[Maria Carolina Wolf]] (1742–1820)
* [[Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy]], née Boyvin d'Hardancourt (1744–1824)
* [[Marianna Martines|Marianna von Martines]] (1744–1812)
* [[Maddalena Laura Sirmen]] (1745–1818)
* [[Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis]] (1746–1825)
* [[Genovieffa Ravissa]] de Turin (1745/50–1807)
* [[Henriette Adélaïde Villard de Beaumesnil]] (1748–1813)
* [[Gertrud Elisabeth Mara]] (1749–1833)
* [[Polly Young]], or Maria Barthélemon (1749–1799)
* [[Elizabeth Anspach]] (1750–1828)
* [[Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen]] (1750–1809/10)
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==1751–1800==
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* [[Maria Anna Mozart]] (1751–1829) <!-- Her brother praised her compositions, though none survive-->
* [[Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter]] (1751–1802)
* [[Juliane Reichardt]] (Juliane Benda) (1752–1783)
* [[Jane Savage]] (1752/3–1824)
* [[Jeanne Renee de Bombelles]] (1753–1828)
* [[Charlotte von Brandenstein]] (1754–1813)
* [[Josepha Duschek]] (1754–1824)
* [[Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt]] (1755–1810)
* [[Mary Linwood]] (1755/6–1845)
* [[Francesca Lebrun]] (1756–1791)
* [[Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]] (1757–1806)
* [[Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann]] (1757–1817)
* [[Harriett Abrams]] (1758–1821)
* [[Josepha Barbara Auernhammer]] (1758–1820)
* [[Marianna von Auenbrugger]] (1759–1782)
* [[Marie-Elizabeth Cléry]] (1759–1809)
* [[Maria Rosa Coccia]] (1759–1833)
* [[Maria Theresia von Paradis]] (1759–1824)
* [[Sophia Maria Westenholz]] (1759–1838)
* [[Christina Charlotta Cederström]] (1760–1832)
* [[Katerina Maier]] (c. 1760–''after'' 1800)
* [[Maria Hester Park]], (1760–1813)
* [[Madame Ronssecy]] (fl. 1780–1800)
* [[Dorothea Jordan]] (1761–1816)
* [[Yekaterina Sinyavina]] (1761–1784)
* [[Adelheid Maria Eichner]] (1762–1787)
* [[Jane Mary Guest]] (c. 1762–1846)
* [[Ann Valentine]] (1762–1842)
* [[Anna Maria Crouch]] (1763–1805)
* [[Anna von Schaden]] (1763–1834)
* [[Helene de Montgeroult]] (1764–1836)
* [[Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes]] (1765–1788)
* [[Elizabeth Billington]] (1765–1818)
* [[Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes]] (1765–?1834)
* [[Magdalene Stirling]] (1765–1846)
* [[Anne-Marie Krumpholtz]] (1766–1813)
* [[Harriet Wainwright]] (c. 1766–1843)
* [[Caroline Wuiet]] (1766–1835)
* [[Cecilia Maria Barthélemon]] (1767–1859)
* [[Julie Candeille]] (1767–1834)
* [[Margarethe Danzi]] (1768–1800)
* [[Maria Theresa Bland]] (c. 1769–1838)
* [[Kateřina Veronika Anna Dusíkova]] (1769–1833)
* [[Nannette Streicher]] (1769–1833)
* [[Vincenta Da Ponte]] (fl. second half 18th century)
* [[Marianne Sessi]] (177?–1847)
* [[Klementyna Grabowska (Countess Clementine)]] (1771–1831)
* [[Lucile Grétry]] (1772–1790)
* [[Maria Frances Parke]] (1772–1822)
* [[Sophie Bawr]] (1773–1860)
* [[Maria Brizzi Giorgi]] (1775–1822)
* [[Sophia Corri Dussek]] (1775–1847)
* [[Margaret Essex]] (1775–1807)
* [[Sophie Gail]] (1775–1819)
* [[Wilhelmine von Troschke und Rosenwehrt]] (1775–1830)
* [[Sophie Gay]] (1776–1852)
* [[Mme. Tarbé des Sablons]] (1777–1855)
* [[Pauline Duchambge]] (1778–1858)
* [[Louise Reichardt]] (1779–1826)
* [[Ekaterina Likoshin]] (fl. 1800–1810)
* [[Sophie Lebrun]] (1781–1863)
* [[Charlotta Seuerling]] (1782–1828)
* [[Hortense de Beauharnais]] (1783–1837)
* [[Henriette Löfman]] (1784–1836)
* [[Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel]] (1784–1867)
* [[Bettina von Arnim]] (Bettina Brentano) (1785–1859)
* [[Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch]] (1785–1858)
* [[Isabella Colbran]] (1785–1845)
* [[Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar]] (1785–1815)
* [[Marie Bigot]] (1786–1820)
* [[Caroline Boissier-Butini]] (1786–1836)
* [[Le Sénéchal de Kerkado]] (c. 1786–''after'' 1805)
* [[Wilhelmine Schwertzell]] (1787–1863)
* [[Elena Asachi]] (1789–1877)
* [[Augustine Renaud d`Allen]] (1798–after 1821)
* [[Maria Agata Szymanowska]] (1789–1831)
* [[Harriet Browne (composer)|Harriet Browne]] (1790–1858)
* [[Elise Schlick]] (1790–1855)
* [[Gertrude van den Bergh]] (1793–1840)
* [[Amalie, Princess of Saxony]] (1794–1870)
* [[Olivia Buckley]] (born mid-1790s–''after'' 1845)
* [[Mme Delaval]] (fl. 1791–1802)
* [[Hedda Wrangel]] (1792–1833)
* [[Caroline Ridderstolpe]] (1793–1878)
* [[Helene Liebmann]] (1796–1835)
* [[Mathilda d'Orozco]] (1796–1863)
* [[Emilie Zumsteeg]] (1796–1857)
* [[Annette von Droste-Hülshoff]] (1797–1848)
* [[Virginie Morel-du Verger]] (1799–1869)
* [[Marie Schauff]] (fl. 1799–1844)
* [[Maria Fredrica von Stedingk]] (1799–1868)
* [[Filipina Brzezińska-Szymanowska]] (1800–1886)
* [[Susanna Nerantzi]] (fl. 1830–1840)
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==1801–1850==
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* [[Onestina Ricotti]] (19th century)
* [[Caroline Sawath]] (19th century)
* [[Theresa Schaeffer]] (19th century
* [[Marianna Bottini]] (1802–1858)
* [[Marion Dix Sullivan]] (1802–1860)
* [[Eliza Flower]] (1803–1846)
* [[Anna Sick]] (1803–1895)
* [[Isidora Zegers]] (1803–1869)
* [[Louise Farrenc]] (1804–1875)
* [[Louise Bertin]] (1805–1877)
* [[Fanny Mendelssohn]] (1805–1847)
* [[Elizabeth Masson]] (1806–1865)
* [[Adelaide Orsola Appignani]] (1807–1884)
* [[Helen Blackwood]] (1807–1867)
* [[Emma Hartmann]] (1807–1851)
* [[H. Servier]] (1807–1858)
* [[Elise Rondonneau]] (fl. 1827–1860s)
* [[Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)]]
* [[Caroline Wiseneder]] (1807–1868)
* [[Maria Malibran]] (1808–1836)
* [[Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton]] (1808–1877)
* [[Anna Caroline Oury]] (1808–1880)
* [[Leopoldine Blahetka]] (1809–1885)
* [[Hanna Brooman]] (1809–1887)
* [[Baronne Almaury de Maistre]] (1809–1875)
* [[Johanna Kinkel]] (1810–1858)
* [[Louise Geneviève de Le Hye]] (1810–1838)
* [[Loïsa Puget]] (1810–1889)
* [[Elise Schmezer]] (1810–1856)
* [[Alicia Ann Scott]] (1810–1900)
* [[Josefa Somellera]] (1810–1885)
* [[Carolina Uccelli]] (1810–1885)
* [[Ann Mounsey]] (1811–1891)
* [[Emilie Mayer]] (1812–1883)
* [[Amalia Redec]] (1812–1885)
* [[Sophie Seipt]] (1812–1889)
* [[Mathilde Ringelsberg]] (1813–1877)
* [[Julie von Webenau]] née Baroni-Cavalcabò (1813–1887)
* [[Delphine von Schauroth]] (1814–1887)
* [[Thérèse Wartel]] (1814–1865)
* [[Fredrikke Egeberg]] (1815–1861)
* [[Josephine Lang]] (1815–1880)
* [[Lucja Rucinska]] (1817, 1818 or 1820–1882)
* [[Mary Anne à Beckett]] (1817–1863)
* [[Harriet Anne Smart]] (1817–1883)
* [[Caroline Orger]] (1818–1892)
* [[Caroline Reinagle]] (1818–1892)
* [[Laura Wilson Barker]] (1819–1905)
* [[Ellen Dickson]] (1819–1878)
* [[Jacobine Gjertz]] (1819–1862)
* [[Clara Schumann]] (1819–1896)
* [[Elizabeth Stirling]] (1819–1895)
* [[Augusta Browne]] (1820–1882)
* [[Felicita Casella]] (c. 1820–''after'' 1865)
* [[Emilie Hammarskjöld]] (1821–1854)
* [[Clara Angela Macirone]] (1821–1895)
* [[Charlotte Sainton-Dolby]] (1821–1885)
* [[Maria Anna Stubenberg]] (1821–1912)
* [[Pauline Viardot]] (1821–1910)
* [[Betty Boije]] (1822–1854)
* [[Faustina Hasse Hodges]] (1822–1895)
* [[Hermine Rudersdorff]] (1822–1882)
* [[Caroline Samuel]] (1822–1851)
* [[Amalie Scholl]] (1823–1879)
* [[Louise Strantz]] (1823–1909)
* [[Maria Vespermann]] (1823–1882)
* [[Emma Maria Macfarren]] (1824–1895)
* [[Marie Siegling]] (1824–1919)
* [[Jane Sloman]] (1824–''after'' 1850)
* [[Virginia Gabriel]] (1825–1877)
* [[Kate Loder]] (1825–1904)
* [[Nina Stollewerk]] (1825–1914)
* [[Victorine Farrenc]] (1826–1859)
* [[Augustine Lorotte]] (1826–19??)
* [[Maria Lindsay]] (1827–1898)
* [[Teresa Milanollo]] (1827–1904)
* [[Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska]] (1827–1891)
* [[Elizabeth Philp]] (1827–1885)
* [[Eugenie Santa Coloma Sourget]] (1827–1895)
* [[Clémence de Grandval]] (1828–1907)
* [[Ellen R. Thompson]] (1928–2014)
* [[Anna Schuppe]] (1829–1903)
* [[Charlotte Alington Barnard]] (1830–1869)
* [[Charlotte Tardieu]] (1829–1890)
* [[Aurore von Haxthausen]] (1830–1888)
* [[Fanny Arthur Robinson]] (1831–1879)
* [[Martha von Sabinin]] (1831–1892)
* [[Julia Woolf]] (1831–1893)
* [[Louise Béguin-Salomon]] (1831–1916)
* [[Caroline Richings]] (1832–1882)
* [[Emily Bruce Roelofson]] (1832–1921)
* [[Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild]] (1832–1924)
* [[Modesta Sanginés Uriarte]] (1832–1887)
* [[Sophia Dellaporta]] (fl. second half of the 19th century)
* [[Clotilde Kainerstorfer]] (1833–1897)
* [[Jane Roeckel]] (1833–1907)
* [[Kate Lucy Ward]] (1833–1915)
* [[Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev]] (1834–1917)
* [[Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska]] (1834–1861)
* [[Teckla Juel]] (1834–1904)
* [[Anna Pessiak-Schmerling]] (1834–1896)
* [[Helen Tretbar]] (1835–1902)
* [[Johanne Amelie Fenger]] (1836–1913)
* [[Susan McFarland Parkhurst]] (1836–1918)
* [[Anaïs Perrière-Pilte]] (1836–1878)
* [[Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie]] (1836–1911)
* [[Charlotte Sporleder]] (1836–1915)
* [[Pauline Thys]] (c.1836–1909)
* [[Caroline Wichern]] (1836–1906)
* [[Carlotta Ferrari]] (1837–1907)
* [[Bertha Tammelin]] (1836–1915)
* [[Georgina Weldon]] (1837–1914)
* [[Harriet Maitland Young]] (1838–1923)
* [[Liliʻuokalani]] (1838–1917)
* [[Louise Haenel de Cronenthall]] (1839–c. 1876)
* [[Lotten Edholm]] (1839–1930)
* [[Laura Constance Netzel]] (1839–1927)
* [[Alice Mary Smith]] (1839–1884)
* [[Ingeborg von Bronsart]] (1840–1913)
* [[Theodora Cormontan]] (1840–1922)
* [[Georgina Schubert]] (1840–1878)
* [[Mary Helena Synge]] (1840–1917)
* [[Elfrida Andrée]] (1841–1929)
* [[Clara H. Scott]] (1841–1897)
* [[Louise Héritte-Viardot]] (1841–1918)
* [[Julie Waldburg-Wurzach]] (1841–1914)
* [[Josefina Brdlíková]] (1843–1910)
* [[Célanie Carissan]] (1843–1927)
* [[Florence Ashton Marshall]] (1843–1922)
* [[Oliveria Louisa Prescott]] (1843–1919)
* [[Manuela Antonia Márquez García-Saavedra]] (1844–1890)
* [[Marguerite Olagnier]] (1844–1906)
* [[Clara Kathleen Rogers]] (1844–1931)
* [[Ika Peyron]] (1845–1922)
* [[Pauline Rosenthal]] (1845–1912)
* [[Giuseppina Vitali]] (1845–1915)
* [[Regina Watson]] (1845–1913)
* [[Ella Adayevskaya]] (née Schultz) (1846–1926)
* [[Marie Jaëll]] (1846–1925)
* [[Sophie Menter]] (1846–1918)
* [[Valentina Serova (composer)|Valentina Serova]] (1846–1924)
* [[Agnes Tyrrell]] (1846–1883)
* [[Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner]] (1846–1896)
* [[Eliza Mazzucato Young]] (1846–1937)
* [[Eloísa D'Herbil]] (1847–1943)
* [[Agathe Backer Grøndahl]] (1847–1907)
* [[Chiquinha Gonzaga]] (1847–1935)
* [[Augusta Holmès]] (1847–1903)
* [[Marguerite Samuel]] (1847–1912)
* [[Agnes Zimmermann]] (1847–1925)
* [[Josephine Amann-Weinlich]] (1848–1887)
* [[Louise Filliaux-Tiger]] (1848–1916)
* [[Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova]] (1848–1919)
* [[Teresa Seneke]] (1848–1875)
* [[Frances Allitsen]] (1849–1912)
* [[Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena]] (1849–1893)
* [[Catalina Berroa]] (1849–1911)
* [[Roberta Geddes-Harvey]] (1849–1930)
* [[Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska]] (1849–1898)
* [[Nanna Magdalene Liebmann]] (1849–1935)
* [[Felicia Tuczek]] (1849–1905)
* [[Pauline Volkstein]] (1849–1925)
* [[Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach]] (1849–1919)
* [[Luise Adolpha Le Beau]] (1850–1927)
* [[Jeanne Rivet]] (1850–1913)
* [[Carrie Burpee Shaw]] (1850–1946)
* [[Kate Simmons]] (1850–1926)
* [[Emma Roberto Steiner]] (1850–1928)

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==1851–1875==
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* [[Maria Wilhelmj]] (185?–1930)
* [[Eva Best]] (1851–1925)
* [[Mary Grant Carmichael]] (1851–1935)
* [[Gabrielle Ferrari]] (1851–1921)
* [[Annie Fortescue Harrison]] (1851–1944)
* [[Kate Vanderpoel]] (born 1851)
* [[Helena Munktell]] (1852–1919)
* [[Marie Townsend]] (1851–1912)
* [[Antha Minerva Virgil]] (c. 1852–1939)
* [[Amanda Röntgen-Maier]] (1853–1894)
* [[Teresa Carreño]] (1853–1917)
* [[Susan Trew]] (born 1853)
* [[Josephine Troup]] (1853–1912)
* [[Mary Augusta Wakefield]] (1853–1910)
* [[Julie Rivé-King]] (1854–1937)
* [[Manuela Cornejo Sanchez]] (1854–1902)
* [[Hendrika van Tussenbroek]] (1854–1935)
* [[Nellie Bangs Skelton]] (1855–1911)
* [[Maude Valérie White]] (1855–1937)
* [[Cecilia Arizti]] (1856–1930)
* [[Eva Dell'Acqua]] (1856–1930)
* [[Kateřina Emingerová]] (1856–1934)
* [[Helen Hopekirk]] (1856–1945)
* [[Natalia Janotha]] (1856–1932)
* [[Gilda Ruta]] (1856–1932)
* [[Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter]] (1856–1938)
* [[Fannie Lovering Skinner]] (1856–1938)
* [[Berta Bock]] (1857–1945)
* [[Cécile Chaminade]] (1857–1944)
* [[Rosalind Frances Ellicott]] (1857–1924)
* [[Ethel R. Harraden]] (1857–1917)
* [[Cécile Hartog]] (1857–1940)
* [[Mathilde Kralik von Mayerswalden]] (1857–1944)
* [[Mary Knight Wood]] (1857–1944)
* [[Emma Wooge]] (1857–1935)
* [[Carrie B. Wilson Adams]] (1858–1940)
* [[Mélanie Bonis]] (1858–1937)
* [[Emma Mundella]] (1858–1896)
* [[Catharina van Rennes]] (1858–1940)
* [[Helen Rhodes]] (Guy d’Hardelot) (1858–1936)
* [[Frances C. Robinson]] (1858-1905)
* [[Clara Ross]] (1858-1954)
* [[Hilda Sehested]] (1858–1936)
* [[Ethel Smyth]] (1858–1944)
* [[Stella Stocker]] (1858–1925)
* [[Lydia Kunz Venth]] (1858–1931)
* [[Adelheid Wette]] (1858–1916)
* [[Sophie Wolff-Fritz]] (1858–1938)
* [[Hedwige Chrétien]] (1859–1944)
* [[Laura Sedgwick Collins]] (1859–1927)
* [[Narcisa Freixas]] (1859–1926)
* [[Vincenza Garelli della Morea]] (1859–''after'' 1924)
* [[Susie Frances Harrison]] (1859–1935)
* [[Elisabeth Meyer (composer)|Elisabeth Meyer]] (1859–1927)
* [[Ida Georgina Moberg]] (1859–1947)
* [[Clara Rees]] (1859-?)
* [[Margit Sztaray]] (1859–?)
* [[Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera]] (1859–1946)
* [[Bertha Tapper]] (1859–1915)
* [[Hope Temple]] (1859–1938)
* [[Agnes Tschetschulin]] (1859–1942)
* [[Ellen Wright]] (1859–1904)
* [[Laura Valborg Aulin]] (1860–1928)
* [[Alicia Van Buren]] (1860–1922)
* [[Gisela Frankl]] (1860–1935)
* [[Celeste de Longpré Heckscher]] (1860–1928)
* [[Halina Krzyżanowska]] (1860–1937)
* [[Ella May Dunning Smith]] (1860–1934)
* [[Isabel Stewart North]] (1860–1929)
* [[Hilda Wilson]] (1860–1918)
* [[Amy Woodforde-Finden]] (1860–1919)
* [[Mary J. A. Wurm]] (1860–1938)
* [[Florence Everilda Goodeve]] (1861–1915)
* [[Georgie Boyden St. John]] (1861–1899)
* [[Erika Stang]] (1861–1898)
* [[Anna Teichmüller]] (1861–1940)
* [[Florence Aylward]] (1862–1950)
* [[Carrie Bond]] (1862–1946)
* [[Dora Bright]] (1862–1951)
* [[Liza Lehmann]] (1862–1918)
* [[Adela Maddison]] (1862–1929)
* [[Mona McBurney]] (1862–1932)
* [[Harriet P. Sawyer]] (1862–1934)
* [[Edith Swepstone]] (1862–1930)
* [[Marian Arkwright]] (1863–1922)
* [[Luisa Casagemas]] (1863–''after'' 1894)
* [[Maria Chefaliady-Taban]] (1863–1932)
* [[Abbie Gerrish-Jones]] (1863–1929)
* [[Helen Francis Hood]] (1863–1949)
* [[Izabella Kuliffay]] (1863–1945)
* [[Alicia Adélaide Needham]] (1863–1945)
* [[Cornélie van Oosterzee]] (1863–1943)
* [[Caroline Holme Walker]] (1863–1955)
* [[Elisabeth Wintzer]] (1863–1933)
* [[Florence Maude Ewart]] (1864–1949)
* [[Eleanor Everest Freer]] (1864–1942)
* [[Mary Rosselli Nissim]] (1864-1937)
* [[Alice Tegnér]] (1864–1943)
* [[Borghild Holmsen]] (1865–1938)
* [[Lillian Tait Sheldon]] (1865–1925)
* [[Fannie Morris Spencer]] (1865–1943)
* [[Amanda Ira Aldridge]] (1866–1956)
* [[Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet]] (1866–1945)
* [[Clara Anna Korn]] (1866–1941)
* [[Laura Lemon]] (1866–1924)
* [[Lily Reiff]] (1866-1958)
* [[Alice Sauvrezis]] (1866–1946)
* [[Tekla Griebel Wandall]] (1866–1940)
* [[Mary Louisa White]] (1866–1935)
* [[Amy Beach]] (1867–1944)
* [[Margherita Galeotti]] (1867–''after'' 1912)
* [[Amy Elsie Horrocks]] (1867–''after'' 1915)
* [[Margaret Ruthven Lang]] (1867–1972)
* [[Alexandra Thomson]] (1867–1907)
* [[Gisella Delle Grazie]] (born 1868, fl. 1894–95)
* [[Signe Lund]] (1868–1950)
* [[Annie Patterson]] (1868–1934)
* [[Gertrude Ina Robinson]] (1868-1950)
* [[Cora Decker Sargent]] (1868–1944)
* [[Anna Diller Starbuck]] (1868–1929)
* [[Joséphine Boulay]] (1869–1925)
* [[Virginia Mariani Campolieti]] (1869–1941)
* [[Maria Antonietta Picconi]] (1869–1926)
* [[Caro Roma]] (1869–1937)
* [[Grace W. Root]] (1869-1898)
* [[Patty Stair]] (1869–1926)
* [[Else Streit]] (1869–?)
* [[Therese Wittman]] (1869–1942)
* [[Grace Chadbourne]] (1870–1919)
* [[Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville]] (1870–1946)
* [[Grimson (musical family)|Annie Maria Grimson]] (1870–1949)
* [[Mon Schjelderup]] (1870–1934)
* [[Pauline B. Story]] (1870–1952)
* [[Pamela Motley Verrall]] (1870–1948)
* [[Lola Carrier Worrell]] (1870–1929)
* [[Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin]] (1871–1942) (name often abbreviated as Fréd. de Faye-Jozin)
* [[Nellie von Gerichten Smith]] (1871–1952)
* [[Anita Socola Specht]] (1871–1958)
* [[Florence Turner-Maley]] (1871–1962)
* [[Jane Vieu]] (1871–1955)
* [[Bessie Marshall Whitely]] (1871–1944)
* [[Bertha Remick]] (1872-1965)
* [[Louise Tunison]] (1872–1899)
* [[Leokadiya Kashperova]] (1872–1940)
* [[Clara Mathilda Faisst]] (1872–1948)
* [[Mabel Madison Watson]] (1872–1952)
* [[Isabel Güell i López]] (1872-1956)
* [[Annette Thoma]] (1872–1959)
* [[Eliza Woods]] (1872–1961)
* [[María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui]] (1873–1957)
* [[Anna Cramer]] (1873–1968)
* [[Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Celeste]] (1873–1938)
* [[Emma Lomax]] (1873–1963)
* [[Mary Carr Moore]] (1873–1957)
* [[Anice Potter Terhune]] (1873–1964)
* [[Elise Fellows White]] (1873–1953)
* [[Maude Nugent]] (1873/4–1958)
* [[Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert]] (1874–1964)
* [[Ethel Barns]] (1874–1948)
* [[Katharine Emily Eggar]] (1874–1961)
* [[Lena Stein-Schneider]] (1874–1958)
* [[Elsa Swartz]] (1874–1948)
* [[Frances Tarbox]] (1874–1959)
* [[Josephine Trott]] (1874–1950)
* [[Bertha Frensel Wegener]] (1874–1953)
* [[Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale]] (1875–1958)
* [[Adele Bloesch-Stöcker]] (1875–1978)
* [[Irène Fuerison]] (1875–1931)
* [[Grace Walls Linn]] (1874–1940
* [[Katharine Lucke]] (1875–1962)
* [[Henriette Renié]] (1875–1956)
* [[Sofie Rohnstock]] (1875-1964)
* [[Gertrude Martin Rohrer]] (1875-1968)
* [[Erna Schorlemmer]] (1875–1945)
* [[Satella Waterstone]] (1875–1938)
* [[Vilma von Webenau]] (1875–1953)
* [[Sara Wennerberg-Reuter]] (1875–1959)
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== 1876–1900 ==
[[File:Portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van Vechten.jpg|thumb|Portrait of [[Nora Holt]] by [[Carl Van Vechten]]]]
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* [[Lucia Contini Anselmi]] (1876–''after'' 1913){{sfn|Cohen|1987a|p=[https://archive.org/details/internationalenc0001cohe/page/6/mode/2up?view=theater 6]}}
* [[Hélène Fleury-Roy]] (1876–1957)
* [[Armande de Polignac]] (1876–1962)
* [[Teresa Clotilde del Riego]] (1876–1968)
* [[Charlotte Ruegger]] (1876-1959)
* [[Jean E. Williams]] (1876–1965)
* [[Addie Anderson Wilson]] (1876–1966)
* [[Elsa Laura Wolzogen]] (1876–1945)
* [[Mabel Wheeler Daniels]] (1877–1971)
* [[Elisabeth Kuyper]] (1877–1953)
* [[Jadwiga Sarnecka]] (1877 or 1883–1913)
* [[Anna Schytte]] (1877–1953)
* [[Anna Suszczynska]] (1877–1931)
* [[Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven]] (1878–1969)
* [[Eugenia Calosso]] (1878–1914)
* [[Johanna Müller-Hermann]] (1878–1941)
* [[Louise Robyn]] (1878-1949)
* [[Lalla Ryckoff]] (1878–1977)
* [[Hope Squire]] (1878–1936)
* [[Yuliya Veysberg]] (1878/1880–1942)
* [[Wanda Landowska]] (1879–1959)
* [[Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure]] (1879–1960)
* [[Carmela Mackenna]] (1879–1962)
* [[Alma Mahler]] (1879–1964)
* [[Poldowski]] (1879–1932)
* [[Johanna Senfter]] (1879–1961)
* [[Louise Siddall]] (1879–1935)
* [[Nannie Louise Wright]] (1879–1958)
* [[Ethel Scarborough]] (1880–1956)
* [[Elena Stanekaite-Laumyanskene]] (1880–1960)
* [[Geertruida van Vladeracken]] (1880–1947)
* [[Florence Wickham]] (1880–1962)
* [[Gena Branscombe]] (1881–1977)
* [[Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab]] (1881–1971)
* [[Nancy Dalberg]] (1881–1949)
* [[Fannie Charles Dillon]] (1881–1974)
* [[Eleanor Rudall]] (1881–1960)
* [[Janet Mary Salsbury]] (1881–1951)
* [[Cecile Paul Simon]] (1881–1970)
* [[Marion Bauer]] (1882–1955)
* [[Mary Howe]] (1882–1964)
* [[Verdi Karns]] (1882–1925)
* [[Ernestina Lecuona y Casado]] (1882–1951)
* [[Mary Lucas]] (1882–1952)
* [[Adaline Shepherd]] (1883–1950)
* [[Eva Ruth Spalding]] (1883–1969)
* [[Dina Appeldoorn]] (1884–1938)
* [[Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt]] (1884–1964)
* [[May Brahe]] (1884–1956)
* [[Nora Holt]] (1884–1974)
* [[Giulia Recli]] (1884–1970)
* [[Gisela Selden-Goth]] (1884–1975)
* [[Blanche Selva]] (1884–1942)
* [[Maria Elizabeth van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen]] (1885–1980)
* [[María Grever]] (1885–1951)
* [[Eva Jessye]] (1885–1992)
* [[Mana Zucca]] (1885–1981)
* [[Dora Pejačević]] (1885–1923)
* [[Frieda Schmitt-Lermann]] (born 1885)
* [[Louise Cooper Spindle]] (1885–1968)
* [[J. Lilian Vandevere]] (1885–1957)
* [[Edith Weiss-Mann]] (1885–1851)
* [[Giovanna Bruna Baldacci]] (1886–''after'' 1910)
* [[Christabel Baxendale]] (1886–''after'' 1951)
* [[Rebecca Helferich Clarke]] (1886–1979)
* [[Ellen Coleman (composer)|Ellen Coleman]] (1886–1973)
* [[Elizabeth Gyring]] (1886–1970)
* [[Ethel Leginska]] (1886–1970)
* [[Geni Sadero]] (1886–1961)
* [[Margaret McClure Stitt]] (1886–1979)
* [[Herma Studeny]] (1886–1973)
* [[Annette Thoma]] (1886–1974)
* [[Leonie Tonel]] (died 1886)
* [[Nadia Boulanger]] (1887–1979)
* [[Mildred Couper]] (1887–1974)
* [[Clara Edwards (composer)|Clara Edwards]] (1887–1974)
* [[Emilia Gubitosi]] (1887–1972)
* [[Florence Price|Florence Beatrice Price]] (1887–1953)
* [[Meta Schumann]] (1887–1937)
* [[Margarete Schweikert]] (1887–1957)
* [[Anne Stratton]] (1887–1977)
* [[Lily Strickland]] (1887–1958)
* [[Bertha Tideman-Wijers]] (1887–1976)
* [[Bertha Weber]] (1887–1961)
* [[May Aufderheide]] (1888–1972)
* [[Carmen Barradas]] (1888–1963)
* [[Johanna Beyer]] (1888–1944)
* [[Ilse Fromm-Michaels]] (1888–1986)
* [[Anna Maria Klechniowska]] (1888–1973)
* [[Julie Reisserová]] (1888–1938)
* [[Maria Rodrigo]] (1888–1967)
* [[Didia Saint Georges]] (1888–1979)
* [[Elna Sherman]] (1888–1964)
* [[Lyubov Streicher]] (1888–1958)
* [[Jeanette Tillett]] (1888–1965)
* [[Rosy Wertheim]] (1888–1949)
* [[Gertrude Hoag Wilson]] (1888–1968)
* [[Amy Aldrich Worth]] (1888–1967)
* [[Emiliana de Zubeldia]] (1888–1987)
* [[Ina Boyle]] (1889–1967)
* [[Ethel Glenn Hier]] (1889–1971)
* [[Eleni Lambiri]] (1889–1960)
* [[Gertrude Ross]] (1889-1957)
* [[Luise Schulze-Berghof]] (1889–1970)
* [[Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom]] (1889–1970)
* [[Celia Torrá]] (1889–1962)
* [[Hanna Vollenhoven]] (1889–1972)
* [[Vally Weigl]] (1889–1982)
* [[Helen Searles Westbrook]] (1889–1967)
* [[E. Florence Whitlock]] (1889–1978)
* [[Lydia Boucher]] (1890–1971)
* [[Marguerite Canal]] (1890–1978)
* [[Evelyn Faltis]] (1890–1937)
* [[Pauline Hall (composer)|Pauline Hall]] (1890–1969)
* [[Grace LeBoy]] (1890–1983)
* [[Kathleen Lockhart Manning]] (1890–1951)
* [[Eda Rapoport]] (1890–1968)
* [[Yvonne Rokseth]] (1890–1948)
* [[Dagmar de Corval Rybner]] (1890–1965)
* [[Sara Opal Search]] (1890–1961)
* [[Alice Marion Shaw]] (born 1890)
* [[Susan Spain-Dunk]] (1890–1962)
* [[Margaret Hoberg Turrell]] (1890–1948)
* [[Frida Kern]] (1891–1988)
* [[Florentina Mallá]] (1891–1973)
* [[Morfydd Llwyn Owen]] (1891–1918)
* [[Helen Roessing]] (1891-1957)
* [[Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili]] (1891–1955)
* [[Catherine Murphy Urner]] (1891–1942)
* [[Frances Turgeon Wiggin]] (1891–1985)
* [[Ethel Edith Bilsland]] (1892–1982)
* [[Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman]] (1892–1971)
* [[Katherine K. Davis]] (1892–1980)
* [[Mirrie Hill]] (1892–1986)
* [[Gladys Rich]] (1892-1972)
* [[Maria Scheepers]] (1892–1989)
* [[Louise E. Stairs]] (1892–1975)
* [[Germaine Tailleferre]] (1892–1983)
* [[Anne Upton]] (1892–1970)
* [[Ella May Walker]] (1892–1960)
* [[Mildred Weston]] (1892–1975)
* [[Helen Wing]] (1892–1981)
* [[Margareta Xenopol]] (1892–1979)
* [[Lili Boulanger]] (1893–1918)
* [[Marta Canales]] (1893–1986)
* [[Dorothy Gow]] (1893–1982)
* [[Helen Eugenia Hagan]] (1893–1964)
* [[Amy Upham Thomson McKean]] (1893–1972)
* [[Breda Scek]] (1893–1968)
* [[Philippine Schick]] (1893–1970)
* [[Theodora Troendle]] (1893–1972)
* [[Tamara Vakhvakhishvili]] (1893–1976)
* [[Kalitha Dorothy Fox]] (1894–1934)
* [[Jane M. Joseph]] (1894–1929)
* [[Elsa Respighi]] (1894–1996)
* [[Mildred Souers]] (1894–1977)
* [[Helen Steele]] (born 1894)
* [[Viola Van Katwijk]] (1894–1980)
* [[Awilda Villarini]] (1894–1989)
* [[Sláva Vorlová]] (1894–1973)
* [[Mildred Adair]] (1895-1943)
* [[Henriëtte Bosmans]] (1895–1952)
* [[Kathleen Dale]] (1895–1984)<!--same as Kathleen Richards-->
* [[Kathleen Richards]] (1895–1984)
* [[Esther Cox Todd]] (1895–1971)
* [[Mildred Lund Tyson]] (1895–1989)
* [[Vera Vinogradova]] (1895–1982)
* [[Hilda Emery Davis]] (1895–1995)
* [[Maria Bach]] (1896–1978)
* [[Amice Calverley]] (1896–1959)
* [[Shirley Graham Du Bois]] (1896–1977)
* [[María Teresa Prieto]] (1896–1982)
* [[Anna Renfer]] (1896–1984)
* [[Mildred Barnes Royse]] (1896–1986)
* [[María Luisa Sepúlveda]] (1896–1958)
* [[Madelene Van Aardt]] (1896-19982)
* [[Lucie Vellère]] (1896–1966)
* [[Rossini Vrionides]] (1896–1943)
* [[Benna Moe]] (1897–1983)
* [[Margaret Sutherland]] (1897–1984)
* [[Muriel Emily Herbert]] (1897–1984)
* [[Kay Swift]] (1897–1993)
* [[Ruth Tripp]] (1897–1971)
* [[Mildred Cozzens Turner]] (1897–1992)
* [[Kathe Volkart-Schlager]] (1897–1976)
* [[Dorothy Wanderman]] (1897–1988)
* [[Mimi Wagensonner]] (1897–1970)
* [[Barbara Giuranna]] (1898–1998)
* [[Dorothy Howell (composer)|Dorothy Howell]] (1898–1982)
* [[Grace Vamos]] (1898–1992)
* [[Stefania Turkewich]] (1998–1977)
* [[Jeanne Leleu]] (1898–1979)
* [[Svea Nordblad Welander]] (1898–1985)
* [[Glad Robinson Youse]] (1898–1985)
* [[Mansi Barberis]] (1899–1986)
* [[Radie Britain]] (1899–1994)
* [[Marcelle de Manziarly]] (1899–1989)
* [[Lili Wieruszowski]] (1899–1971)
* [[Edith Wire]] (1899–1973)
* [[Grete von Zieritz]] (1899–2001)
* [[Carmelina Delfin]] (c. 1900–''after'' 1948)
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==1900s==
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* [[Lola Castegnaro]] (1900–1979)
* [[Lilian Elkington]] (1900–1969)
* [[Florence Margaret Spencer Palmer]] (1900–1987)
* [[Louise Christine Rebe]] (1900-1978)
* [[Winifred Emily Rees]] (1900-1976)
* [[Marion Morrey Richter]] (1900-1996)
* [[Andree Aeschlimann Rochat]] (1900-1990)
* [[Gladys Marie Stein]] (1900–1989)
* [[Zdenka Ticharich]] (1900–1979)
* [[Elinor Remick Warren]] (1900–1991)
* [[Gertrude Price Wollner]] (1900–1985)
* [[Lotte Backes]] (1901–1990)
* [[Mirca Župnek Sancin]] (1901–1970)
* [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]] (1901–1953)
* [[Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté]] (1901–1974)
* [[Dorothy James]] (1901–1982)
* [[Else Schmitz-Gohr]] (1901–1987)
* [[Emmy Wegener]] (1901–1973)
* [[Hedy Frank-Autheried]] (1902–1979)
* [[Margaret Dare|Marie Dare]] (1902–1976)
* [[Lūcija Garūta]] (1902–1977)
* [[Helvi Leiviskä]] (1902–1982)
* [[Doris Gertrude Sheppard]] (1902–1982)
* [[Irene Skovgaard]] (1902–1982)
* [[Freda Swain]] (1902–1985)
* [[Rose Thisse-Derouette]] (1902–1989)
* [[Pava Turtygina]] (1902–1985)
* [[Claude Arrieu]] (1903–1990)
* [[Helza Cameu]] (1903–1995)
* [[María Enma Botet Dubois]] (1903–?)
* [[Rhoda Coghill]] (1903–2000)
* [[Avril Coleridge-Taylor]] (1903–1998)
* [[Lillian Fuchs]] (1903–1991)
* [[Jessie Furze]] (1903–1984)
* [[Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser]] (1903–1992)
* [[Priaulx Rainier|Ivy Priaulx Rainier]] (1903–1986)
* [[Miriam Shatal]] (1903–1983)
* [[Joanídia Sodré]] (1903–1975)
* [[Iet Stants]] (1903–1968)
* [[Heidi Sundblad-Halme]] (1903–1973)
* [[June Weybright]] (1903–1996)
* [[Maria Semyonovna Zavalishina]] (born 1903)
* [[Martha Alter]] (1904–1976)
* [[Dinorá de Carvalho]] (1904–1980)
* [[Undine Smith Moore]] (1904–1989)
* [[Lita Spena]] (1904–1989)
* [[Dorothy Parke]] (1904–1990)
* [[Esther Rofe]] (1904–2000)
* [[Anne Terrier Laffaille]] (1904–1971)
* [[Mary Wiggins]] (1904–1974)
* [[Margaret Wigham]] (1904–1972)
* [[Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek]] (1904–1972)
* [[Toni Beaulieu]] (1905–1994)
* [[Andrée Bonhomme]] (1905–1982)
* [[Ulric Cole]] (1905–1992)
* [[Elizabeth Poston]] (1905–1987)
* [[Helen Pyke]] (1905–1954)
* [[Violet Reiser]] (1905-1981)
* [[Olive Nelson Russell]] (1905–1989)
* [[Verdina Shlonsky]] (1905–1990)
* [[Constance Cochnower Virtue]] (1905–1992)
* [[Shuxian Xiao]] (1905–1991)
* [[Claire Delbos]] (1906–1959)
* [[Miriam Gideon]] (1906–1996)
* [[Zara Levina]] (1906–1976)
* [[Elisabeth Lutyens]] (1906–1983)
* [[Lauma Reinholde]] (1906-1986)
* [[Gertrud Hermine Kuenzel Roberts]] (1906-1995)
* [[Berta Alves de Sousa]] (1906–1997)
* [[Louise Talma]] (1906–1996)
* [[Elinor Meissner Traeger]] (1906–1983)
* [[Clara Wildschut]] (1906–1950)
* [[Grace Williams]] (1906–1977)
* [[Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya]] (1906–1975)
* [[Esther Zweig]] (1906–1981)
* [[Ann Ronell]] (1906/1908–1993)
* [[Lora Aborn]] (1907–2005)
* [[Guirne Creith]] (1907–1996)
* [[Yvonne Desportes]] (1907–1993)
* [[Koharik Gazarossian]] (1907–1967)
* [[Imogen Holst]] (1907–1984)
* [[Elizabeth Maconchy]] (1907–1994)
* [[Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón]] (1907–1995)
* [[Roberta Martin]] (1907–1969)
* [[Helen C. Rockefeller]] (1907-1957)
* [[Hazel Volkart]] (1907–1985)
* [[Claude Porter White]] (1907–1975)
* [[Florence Wickham]] (1907–1991)
* [[Aimée Van de Wiele]] (1907–1981)
* [[Roberta Bitgood]] (1908–2007)
* [[Jean Coulthard]] (1908–2000)
* [[Helen Glatz]] (1908–1996)
* [[Joan Mary Last]] (1908–2002)
* [[Zenobia Powell Perry]] (1908–2004)
* [[Trude Rittmann]] (1908–2005)
* [[Alice Samter]] (1908–2004)
* [[Michiko Toyama]] (1908–2000)
* [[Ida Vivado]] (1908–1989)
* [[Grażyna Bacewicz]] (1909–1969)
* [[Maria Dziewulska]] (1909–2006)
* [[Minna Keal]] (1909–1999)
* [[Ljubica Marić]] (1909–2003)
* [[Helen Perkin]] (1909–1996)
* [[Berenice Robinson]] (1909-1990)
* [[Alice Streatch]] (1909–1999)
* [[Dana Suesse]] (1909–1987)
* [[Cecile Vashaw]] (1909–1985)
* [[Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova]] (born 1909)
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==1910s==
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* [[Ana Serrano Redonnet]] (191?–1993)
* [[Elsa Barraine]] (1910–1999)
* [[Lycia de Biase Bidart]] (1910–1990)
* [[Patricia Blomfield Holt]] (1910–2003)
* [[Shena Fraser]] (1910–1993)
* [[Lila Lalauni]] (1910–1996)
* [[Paule Maurice]] (1910–1967)
* [[Evelyn La Rue Pittman]] (1910–1992)
* [[Mercedes Roldós Freixes]] (1910–1980)
* [[Friederike Schwarz]] (1910–1945)
* [[Dagmara Slianova-Mizandari]] (1910–1983)
* [[Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova]] (1910–1980)
* [[Alliene Brandon Webb]] (1910–1965)
* [[Mary Lou Williams]] (1910–1981)
* [[Louise Yazbeck]] (1910–1995)
* [[Kikuko Kanai]] (1911–1986)
* [[Anne-Marie Ørbeck]] (1911–1996)
* [[Marina Scriabina]] (1911–1998)
* [[Julia Smith (composer)|Julia Smith]] (1911–1989)
* [[Phyllis Tate]] (1911–1987)
* [[Margaret Jones Wiles]] (1911–2000)
* [[Ilse Gerda Wunsch]] (1911–2003)
* [[:de:Lydia Auster|Lydia Auster]] (1911–1989)
* [[Jeanne Behrend]] (1912–1988)
* [[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]] (1912–1990)
* [[Gisela Hernández]] (1912–1971)
* [[Sirvart Karamanuk]] (1912–2008)
* [[Barbara Pentland]] (1912–2000)
* [[Irena Pfeiffer]] (1912–1996)
* [[Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska]] (1912–1994)
* [[Violet Archer]] (1913–2000)
* [[Isabel Aretz]] (1913–2005)
* [[Margaret Allison Bonds]] (1913–1972)
* [[Matilde Capuis]] (1913–2017)
* [[Peggy Stuart Coolidge]] (1913–1981)
* [[Eiluned Davies]] (1913–1999)
* [[Sylvia Fine]] (1913–1991)
* [[Vivian Fine]] (1913–2000)
* [[Dulcie Holland]] (1913–2000)
* [[Miriam Hyde]] (1913–2005)
* [[Irene Marschand Ritter]] (active 1913-1960)
* [[Clorinda Rosato]] (1913–1985)
* [[Netty Simons]] (1913–1994)
* [[Rodica Sutzu]] (1913–1979)
* [[Jane Vignery]] (1913–1974)
* [[Esther Allan]] (1914–1985)
* [[Cacilda Borges Barbosa]] (1914–2010)
* [[Suzanne Joly]] (1914–2012)
* [[Minuetta Kessler]] (1914–2002)
* [[Teresa Rampazzi]] (1914–2001)
* [[Josée Vigneron-Ramackers]] (1914–2002)
* [[Ethel Tench Rogers]] (1914-2008)
* [[Ana Rugeles]] (1914–2012)
* [[Regina Hansen Willman]] (1914–1965)
* [[Esther Ballou]] (1915–1973)
* [[Eunice Catunda]] (1915–1991)
* [[Júlia Hajdú]] (1915–1987)
* [[Pamela Harrison (composer)|Pamela Harrison]] (1915–1990)
* [[Najla Jabor]] (1915–2001)
* [[Vítězslava Kaprálová]] (1915–1940)
* [[Eunice Katunda]] (1915–1991)
* [[Marjo Tal]] (1915–2006)
* [[Joan Trimble]] (1915–2000)
* [[Pamela Motley Verrall]] (1915–1996)
* [[Berthe di Vito-Delvaux]] (1915–2005)
* [[Edwina Florence Wills]] (1915–2002)
* [[Ann Wyeth McCoy]] (1915–2005)
* [[Jane Corner Young]] (1915–2001)
* [[Olga De Blanck Martín]] (1916–1998)
* [[Carin Malmlöf-Forssling]] (1916–2005)
* [[Lois Rhea]] (1916-2004)
* [[Ruth Shaw Wylie]] (1916–1989)
* [[Erna Tauro]] (1916–1993)
* [[Beatrice Witkin]] (1916–1990)
* [[Els Aarne]] (1917–1995)
* [[Joyce Howard Barrell]] (1917–1989)
* [[Clarisse Leite]] (1917–2003)
* [[Geraldine Mucha]] (1917–2012)
* [[Maj Sønstevold]] (1917–1996)
* [[Ėta Mayseyewna Tïrmand]] (1917–2008)
* [[Erna Woll]] (1917–2005)
* [[Frances Ziffer]] (1917–1996)
* [[María Matilde Alea Fernández]] (1918–2006)
* [[Lila-Gene George]] (1918–2017)
* [[Lina Pires de Campos]] (1918–2003)
* [[Gayane Č'ebotaryan]] (1918–1998)
* [[Dilys Elwyn-Edwards]] (1918–2012)
* [[Lucrecia Roces Kasilag]] (1918–2008)
* [[Matilde Salvador]] (1918–2007)
* [[Denise Tolkowsky]] (1918–1991)
* [[Jórunn Viðar]] (1918–2017)
* [[Norma Wendelburg]] (1918–2016)
* [[Yevgania Yosifovna Yakhina]] (1918–1983)
* [[Roslyn Brogue]] (1919–1981)
* [[Eleonora Eksanishvili]] (1919–2003)
* [[Ludmila Frajt]] (1919–1999)
* [[Hilda Pires dos Reis]] (1919-2001)
* [[Dorothy Whitson Freed]] (1919–2000)
* [[Hilda Jerea]] (1919–1980)
* [[Dee Libbey]] (1919–-1988)
* [[Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko]] (1919–2005)
* [[Qu Xixian]] (1919–2008)
* [[Galina Ustvolskaya]] (1919–2006)
* [[Constance Walton]] (1919–2017)
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==1920s==
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* [[Rolande Falcinelli]] (1920–2006)
* [[Dorothea Anne Franchi]] (1920–2003)
* [[María Teresa Oller]] (1920–2018)
* [[Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso]] (1920–1998)
* [[Rosette Renshaw]] (1920–1997)
* [[Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs]] (1920–2005)
* [[Janina Skowronska]] (1920–1992)
* [[Marion Vree]] (1920–2012)
* [[Helen L. Weiss]] (1920–1948)
* [[Chaya Arbel]] (1921–2007)
* [[Dorothea Austin]] (1921–2011)
* [[Adrienne Clostre]] (1921–2006)
* [[Jeanne Demessieux]] (1921–1968)
* [[Ruth Gipps]] (1921–1999)
* [[Nazife Güran]] (1921–1993)
* [[Mara Petrova]] (1921–1997)
* [[Eva Saito-Noda]] (1921–2004)
* [[Margaret Vardell Sandresky]] (born 1921)
* [[Magdalene Schauss-Flake]] (1921–2008)
* [[Alice Sirooni]] (1921–2011)
* [[Hanna Skalska-Szemioth]] (1921–1964)
* [[Rosalina Abejo]] (1922–1991)
* [[Margaret Buechner]] (1922–1998)
* [[Doreen Carwithen]] (1922–2003)
* [[Odette Gartenlaub]] (1922–2014)
* [[Kyla Greenbaum]] (1922–2017)
* [[Ester Mägi]] (1922–2021)
* [[Sylvia Rexach]] (1922–1961)
* [[Beatrice Schroeder Rose]] (1922–2014)
* [[Jeanine Rueff]] (1922–1999)
* [[Virginia Seay]] (1922–2015)
* [[Nadezhda Simonyan]] (1922–1997)
* [[Dorothy Geneva Styles]] (1922–1984)
* [[Doris Akers]] (1923–1995)
* [[Teresa Borràs i Fornell]] (1923–2010)
* [[Madeleine Dring]] (1923–1977)
* [[Jean Eichelberger Ivey]] (1923–2010)
* [[Ursula Mamlok]] (1923–2016)
* [[Dika Newlin]] (1923–2006)
* [[Elena Romero (composer)|Elena Romero]] (1923–1996)
* [[Yudif Grigorevna Rozhavskaya]] (1923–1982)
* [[Maria Schüppel]] (1923–2011)
* [[Mira Sulpizi]] (born 1923)
* [[Asya Sultanova]] (1923–2021)
* [[Ludmila Ulehla]] (1923–2009)
* [[Katharine Mulky Warne]] (1923–2015)
* [[Elisabet Wentz-Janacek]] (1923–2014)
* [[Shafiga Akhundova]] (1924–2013)
* [[Leni Alexander]] (1924–2005)
* [[Jeanne Colin-De Clerck]] (born 1924)
* [[Zhivka Klinkova]] (1924–2002)
* [[Angela Morley]] (1924–2009)
* [[Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar]] (1924–2009)
* [[Tatyana Nikolayeva]] (1924–1993)
* [[Gladys Nordenstrom]] (1924–2016)
* [[Else Marie Pade]] (1924–2016)
* [[Julia Perry]] (1924–1979)
* [[Jeannine Richer]] (1924–2022)
* [[Denise Roger]] (1924–2005)
* [[Anna Lemmer Badenhorst Rudolph]] (1924–1995)
* [[Ruth Schonthal]] (1924–2006)
* [[Jitka Snížková]] (1924–1989)
* [[Sylvia Soublette]] (1924–2020)
* [[Erzsébet Szőnyi]] (1924–2019)
* [[Tui St. George Tucker]] (1924–2004)
* [[Consuelo Velázquez]] (1924–2005)
* [[Bebe Barron]] (1925–2008)
* [[Cathy Berberian]] (1925–1983)
* [[P. Bhanumathi]] (1925–2005)
* [[Edith Borroff]] (1925–2019)
* [[Hilda Dianda]] (born 1925)
* [[Ginette Keller]] (1925–2010)
* [[Lyudmila Lyadova]] (1925–2021)
* [[Nelly Moretto]] (1925–1978)
* [[Daphne Oram]] (1925–2003)
* [[Alice Parker]] (1925–2023)
* [[Amado Santos Ocampo]] (1925–2009)
* [[Jeanne Ellison Shaffer]] (1925–2009)
* [[Yolande Uyttenhove]] (1925–2000)
* [[Margaret Shelley Vance]] (1925–2008)
* [[Estelle White]] (1925–2011)
* [[Ruth White (composer)|Ruth White]] (1925–2013)
* [[Puchi Balseiro]] (1926–2007)
* [[Modesta Bor]] (1926–1998)
* [[Janine Charbonnier]] (1926–2022)
* [[Irina Elcheva]] (1926–2013)
* [[Zhun Huang]] (1926–2024)
* [[Betsy Jolas]] (born 1926)
* [[Melinda Kistétényi]] (1926–1999)
* [[Maria de Lourdes Martins]] (1926–2009)
* [[Carmen Petra Basacopol]] (1926–2023)
* [[Claire Polin]] (1926–1995)
* [[Marga Richter]] (1926–2020)
* [[Marilyn Rinehart]] (1926–2012)
* [[Esther Scliar]] (1926–1978)
* [[Natela Svanidze]] (1926–2017)
* [[An-Ming Wang]] (born 1926)
* [[Irina Yel'cheva]] (1926–2013)
* [[Ruth Zechlin]] (1926–2007)
* [[Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya]] (1926–2013)
* [[Marilyn J Ziffrin]] (1926–2018)
* [[Dolores Claman]] (1927–2021)
* [[Emma Lou Diemer]] (1927–2024)
* [[Elaine Hugh-Jones]] (1927–2021)
* [[Eva Schorr]] (1927–2016)
* [[Williametta Spencer]] (born 1927)
* [[Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn]] (1927–2014)
* [[Marcelle Villin]] (1927–2022)
* [[Chris Mary Francine Whittle]] (born 1927)
* [[Rolande Maxwell Young]] (1927–2015)
* [[Gaziza Zhubanova]] (1927–1993)
* [[Margrit Zimmermann]] (1927–2020)
* [[Luna Alcalay]] (1928–2012)
* [[Ruth Anderson (composer)|Ruth Anderson]] (1928–2019)
* [[Betty Jackson King]] (1928–1994)
* [[Judith Dvorkin]] (1928–1995)
* [[Sarah Feigin]] (1928–2011)
* [[Beverly Grigsby]] (1928–2022)
* [[Lena McLin]] (1928–2023)
* [[Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz]] (1928–2024)
* [[Nadežka Mosusova]] (born 1928)
* [[Thea Musgrave]] (born 1928)
* [[Adelaide Pereira da Silva]] (1928–2021)
* [[Mary McCarty Snow]] (1928–2012)
* [[Mira J. Spektor]] (1928–2021)
* [[Louise Spizizen]] (1928–2010)
* [[Arlene Buckneberg Ydstie]] (born 1928)
* [[Zlata Tkach]] (1928–2006)
* [[Toshiko Akiyoshi]] (born 1929)
* [[Nini Bulterijs]] (1929–1989)
* [[Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian]] (born 1929)
* [[Siegrid Ernst]] (1929–2022)
* [[Josima Feldschuh]] (1929–1943)
* [[Micki Grant]] (1929–2021)
* [[Dina Koston]] (1929–2009)
* [[Nada Ludvig-Pečar]] (1929–2008)
* [[Lata Mangeshkar]] (1929–2022)
* [[Meena Mangeshkar]] (born 1931)
* [[Pierrette Mari]] (born 1929)
* [[Aleksandra Pakhmutova]] (born 1929)
* [[Elena Petrová]] (1929–2002)
* [[Sharon Elery Rogers]] (1929–2022)
* [[Irma Urteaga]] (1929–2022)
* [[Jeannine Vanier]] (1929–2023)
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==1930s==
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* [[Yardena Alotin]] (1930–1994)
* [[Vera Baeva]] (1930–2017)
* [[Jacqueline Fontyn]] (born 1930)
* [[Joan Franks Williams]] (1930–2003)
* [[Antoinette Kirkwood]] (1930–2014)
* [[Kay Lande]] (1930–2022)
* [[Ruth Lomon]] (1930–2017)
* [[Gudrun Lund]] (1930–2020)
* [[Jana Obrovská]] (1930–1987)
* [[Betty Roe]] (born 1930)
* [[Clotilde Rosa]] (1930–2017)
* [[Marina Saiz-Salazar]] (1930–1990)
* [[E. Anne Schwerdtfeger]] (1930–2008)
* [[Naomi Shemer]] (1930–2004)
* [[Ann Loomis Silsbee]] (1930–2003)
* [[Helen Camille Stanley]] (1930–2021)
* [[Nancy Van de Vate]] (1930–2023)
* [[Marion Verhaalen]] (1930–2020)
* [[Monica Witni]] (1930–1982)
* [[Nancy Laird Chance]] (born 1931)
* [[Lucia Dlugoszewski]] (1931–2000)
* [[Felicia Donceanu]] (1931–2022)
* [[Sofia Gubaidulina]] (1931–2025)
* [[Rosa Guraieb]] (1931–2014)
* [[Yüksel Koptagel]] (born 1931)
* [[Young-ja Lee (composer)|Young-ja Lee]] (born 1931)
* [[Maria Dolores Malumbres]] (1931–2019)
* [[Myriam Marbe]] (1931–1997)
* [[Joyce Mekeel]] (1931–1997)
* [[Phillipa Duke Schuyler]] (1931–1967)
* [[Alida Vázquez]] (1931–2018)
* [[Dorothy Ashby]] (1932–1986)
* [[Elaine Barkin]] (1932–2023)
* [[Betty Beath]] (born 1932)
* [[Diana Pereira Hay]] (born 1932)
* [[Marta Jiráčková]] (born 1932)
* [[Liu Zhuang (musician)|Liu Zhuang]] (1932–2011)
* [[Tera de Marez Oyens]] (1932–1996)
* [[Pauline Oliveros]] (1932–2016)
* [[Éliane Radigue]] (born 1932)
* [[B. J. Rosco]] (born 1932)
* [[Kilza Setti]] (born 1932)
* [[Gitta Steiner]] (1932–1990)
* [[Ruth Watson Henderson]] (born 1932)
* [[Pozzi Escot]] (born 1933)
* [[Ida Gotkovsky]] (born 1933)
* [[Elena Karastoyanova]] (born 1933)
* [[Yoko Ono]] (born 1933)
* [[Charlotte Moorman]] (1933–1991)
* [[Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes]] (born 1933)
* [[Iris Sanguesa]] (born 1933)
* [[Rocio Sanz]] (1933–1993)
* [[Alicia Urreta]] (1933–1987)
* [[Joan Dolores Wilson]] (born 1933)
* [[Huguang Xin]] (1933–2011)
* [[Norma Beecroft]] (1934–2024)
* [[Nicole Lachartre]] (1934–1992)
* [[Mary Mageau]] (1934–2020)
* [[Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi]] (1934–2019)
* [[Teresa Procaccini]] (born 1934)
* [[Beatrice Siegrist]] (born 1934)
* [[Alicia Terzian]] (born 1934)
* [[Arlene Zallman]] (1934–2006)
* [[Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova]] (1934–2012)
* [[Thérèse Brenet]] (born 1935)
* [[Biancamaria Furgeri]] (born 1935)
* [[Helen Gifford]] (born 1935)
* [[Kazuko Hara]] (1935–2014)
* [[Enid Luff]] (1935–2022)
* [[Jacqueline Nova]] (1935–1975)
* [[Clara Sinde Ramallal]] (born 1935)
* [[Gloria Roe]] (1935–2017)
* [[Mirjana Sistek-Djordjevic]] (born 1935)
* [[Julia Stilman-Lasansky]] (1935–2007)
* [[Ivana Marburger Themmen]] (born 1935)
* [[Mary Lynn Twombly]] (born 1935)
* [[Shirley Walker]] (1935–2006)
* [[Wang Qiang (composer)|Qiang Wang]] (born 1935)
* [[Mirjana Živković]] (1935–2020)
* [[Sieglinda Ahrens]] (born 1936)
* [[Izabella Arazova]] (born 1936)
* [[Monic Cecconi-Botella]] (born 1936)
* [[Erika Radermacher]] (born 1936)
* [[Erika Fox]] (born 1936)
* [[Barbara Heller]] (born 1936)
* [[Trisutji Kamal]] (1936–2021)
* [[Sheila Mary Nelson]] (1936–2020)
* [[Jocy de Oliveira]] (born 1936)
* [[Vivian Adelberg Rudow]] (born 1936)
* [[Brunhilde Sonntag]] (1936–2002)
* [[Myra Brooks Turner]] (1936–2017)
* [[Keiko Abe]] (born 1937)
* [[Janet Beat]] (born 1937)
* [[Constança Capdeville]] (1937–1992)
* [[Delia Derbyshire]] (1937–2001)
* [[Beatriz Ferreyra]] (born 1937)
* [[Irina Odăgescu]] (born 1937)
* [[Katherine Hoover]] (1937–2018)
* [[Marta Lambertini]] (1937–2019)
* [[Claire Liddell]] (born 1937)
* [[Diana McIntosh]] (1937–2022)
* [[Kikuko Masumoto]] (born 1937)
* [[Bernadetta Matuszczak]] (1937–2021)
* [[Irma Ravinale]] (1937–2013)
* [[Sylvia Rickard]] (born 1937)
* [[Sharda (singer)]] (1933–2023)
* [[Darinka Simic-Mitrovic]] (born 1937)
* [[Ann Southam]] (1937–2010)
* [[Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia]] (1937–2024)
* [[Isabelle Aboulker]] (born 1938)
* [[Maryanne Amacher]] (1938–2009)
* [[Francine Aubin]]  (1938–2016)
* [[Elizabeth R. Austin]] (born 1938)
* [[Carla Bley]] (1936–2023)
* [[Ann Carr-Boyd]] (born 1938)
* [[Gloria Coates]] (1938–2023)
* [[Piera Pistono]] (born 1938)
* [[Patsy Rogers]] (born 1938)
* [[Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux]] (1938–1985)
* [[Tona Scherchen]] (born 1938)
* [[Shakhida Shaimardanova]] (1938-2020)
* [[Mieko Shiomi (composer)|Mieko Shiomi]] (born 1938)
* [[Cornelia Tăutu]] (1938–2019)
* [[Joan Tower]] (born 1938)
* [[Betty Ann Wong]] (born 1938)
* [[Elinor Armer]] (born 1939)
* [[Wendy Carlos]] (born 1939)
* [[Marcelle Deschênes]] (born 1939)
* [[Lesya Dychko]] (born 1939)
* [[Maija Einfelde]] (born 1939)
* [[Jennifer Fowler]] (born 1939)
* [[Barbara Kolb]] (1938–2024)
* [[Annea Lockwood]] (born 1939)
* [[María Luisa Ozaita]] (1939–2017)
* [[Katherine Teck]] (born 1939)
* [[Inger Wikström]] (born 1939)
* [[Margaret Lucy Wilkins]] (born 1939)
* [[Ellen Taaffe Zwilich]] (born 1939)
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== 1940s ==
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* [[Heidi Baader-Nobs]] (born 1940)
* [[Margaret Brouwer]] (born 1940)
* [[Graciela Castillo]] (born 1940)
* [[Eleanor Hovda]] (1940–2009)
* [[Maria Teresa Luengo]] (born 1940)
* [[Dorothy Rudd Moore]] (1940–2022)
* [[Graciela Paraskevaidis]] (1940–2017)
* [[Chitra Singh]] (born 1940)
* [[Awilda Villarini]] (born 1940)
* [[Eleni Karaindrou]] (born 1941)
* [[Judith Margaret Bailey]] (born 1941)
* [[Anđelka Bego-Šimunić]] (1941–2022)
* [[Kay Gardner (composer)|Kay Gardner]] (1941–2002)
* [[Sorrel Hays]] (1941–2020)
* [[Moya Henderson]] (born 1941)
* [[Viera Janárčeková]] (born 1941)
* [[Usha Khanna]] (born 1941)
* [[Edith Lejet]] (1941–2024)
* [[Ivana Loudová]] (1941–2017)
* [[Jenny Helen McLeod]] (1941–2022)
* [[Sook-Ja Oh]] (born 1941)
* [[Terry Winter Owens]] (1941–2007)
* [[Ferdousi Rahman]] (born 1941)
* [[Magaly Ruiz|Magaly Ruiz Lastres]] (born 1941)
* [[Dorothy Strutt]] (1941–2019)
* [[Elizabeth Walton Vercoe]] (born 1941)
* [[Gillian Whitehead]] (born 1941)
* [[Birgitte Alsted]] (born 1942)
* [[Silvana Di Lotti]] (born 1942)
* [[Canary Burton]] (born 1942)
* [[Helen Fisher (composer)|Helen Fisher]] (born 1942)
* [[Priscilla McLean]] (born 1942)
* [[Haruna Miyake]] (born 1942)
* [[Meredith Monk]] (born 1942)
* [[Kyungsun Suh]] (born 1942)
* [[Diane Thome]] (1942–2025)
* [[Solange Ancona]] (1943–2019)
* [[Christine Berl]] (born 1943)
* [[Michèle Bokanowski]] (born 1943)
* [[Joanna Bruzdowicz]] (1943–2021)
* [[Laura Clayton]] (born 1943)
* [[Eleanor Cory]] (born 1943)
* [[Margriet Ehlen]] (born 1943)
* [[Judy Klein]] (born 1943)
* [[Anne Lauber]] (born 1943)
* [[Tania León]] (born 1943)
* [[Marta Ptaszynska]] (born 1943)
* [[Michèle Reverdy]] (born 1943)
* [[Nicole Rodrigue]] (1943-2010)
* [[Dilorom Saidaminova]] (born 1943)
* [[Alice Shields]] (born 1943)
* [[Elżbieta Sikora]] (born 1943)
* [[Pril Smiley]] (born 1943)
* [[Iwonka Bogumila Szymanska]] (born 1943)
* [[Françoise Barrière]] (1944–2019)
* [[Alison Bauld]] (born 1944)
* [[Ana Bofill Levi]] (born 1944)
* [[Gabriella Cecchi]] (born 1944)
* [[Tatyana Chudova]] (1944–2021)
* [[Gloria González (composer)|Gloria González]] (born 1944)
* [[Elsa Justel]] (born 1944)
* [[Beatriz Lockhart]] (1944–2015)
* [[Gabriela Moyseowicz]] (born 1944)
* [[Claire Renard]] (born 1944)
* [[Marisa Rezende]] (born 1944)
* [[Rhian Samuel]] (born 1944)
* [[Margaret Scoville]] (1944–1978)
* [[Silvia Sommer]] (born 1944)
* [[Graciela Agudelo]] (1945–2018)
* [[Maya Badian]] (born 1945)
* [[Gillian Bibby]] (1945–2023)
* [[Victoria Bond]] (born 1945)
* [[Dorothy Quita Buchanan]] (born 1945)
* [[Judith Ann Clingan]] (born 1945)
* [[Melanie Ruth Daiken]] (1945–2016)
* [[Graciane Finzi]] (born 1945)
* [[Ig Henneman]] (born 1945)
* [[Nagako Konishi]] (born 1945)
* [[Chan-Hae Lee]] (born 1945)
* [[Vânia Dantas Leite]] (1945–2018)
* [[Younghi Pagh-Paan]] (born 1945)
* [[Maggi Payne]] (born 1945)
* [[Elizabeth Raum]] (born 1945)
* [[Carol Sams]] (born 1945)
* [[Marielli Sfakianaki]] (born 1945)
* [[Laurie Spiegel]] (born 1945)
* [[Toyoko Takami]] (born 1945)
* [[Julia Usher]] (born 1945)
* [[Judith Lang Zaimont]] (born 1945)
* [[Barbara Benary]] (1946–2019)
* [[Renate Birnstein]] (born 1946)
* [[Anne Boyd]] (born 1946)
* [[Geneviève Calame]] (1946–1993)
* [[Suzanne Ciani]] (born 1946)
* [[Dora Draganova]] (born 1946)
* [[Tsippi Fleischer]] (born 1946)
* [[Janice Giteck]] (born 1946)
* [[Ann-Elise Hannikainen]] (1946–2012)
* [[Barbara Harbach]] (born 1946)
* [[Ho Wai-On]] (born 1946)
* [[Neva Krasteva]] (born 1946)
* [[Joyce Solomon Moorman]] (born 1946)
* [[Jane O'Leary]] (born 1946)
* [[Anna Rubin]] (born 1946)
* [[Claire Schapira]] (born 1946)
* [[Daria Semegen]] (born 1946)
* [[Marilyn Shrude]] (born 1946)
* [[Sheila Silver]] (born 1946)
* [[Annette Vande Gorne]] (born 1946)
* [[Joelle Wallach]] (born 1946)
* [[Hildegard Westerkamp]] (born 1946)
* [[Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk]] (1946–2023)
* [[Pınar Köksal]] (1946–2019)
* [[Liana Alexandra]] (1947–2011)
* [[Laurie Anderson (performance artist)|Laurie Anderson]] (born 1947)
* [[Franghiz Ali-Zadeh]] (born 1947)
* [[Ruth Bakke]] (born 1947)
* [[Ada Gentile]] (born 1947)
* [[Mayako Kubo]] (born 1947)
* [[Joan La Barbara]] (born 1947)
* [[Nicola LeFanu]] (born 1947)
* [[Zarrina Mirshakar]] (born 1947)
* [[Vojna Nešić]] (born 1947)
* [[Rosica Petkova]] (born 1947)
* [[Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil]] (born 1947)
* [[Faye-Ellen Silverman]]  (born 1947)
* [[Valerie Vonpechy]] (born 1947)
* [[Hilary Tann]] (1947–2023)
* [[Karen Tarlow]] (born 1947)
* [[Gwyneth Van Anden Walker]] (born 1947)
* [[Susan Cohn Lackman]] (born 1947)
* [[Betty Rose Wishart]] (born 1947)
* [[Hsiung-Zee Wong]] (born 1947)
* [[Gisèle Barreau]] (born 1948)
* [[Diana Burrell]] (born 1948)
* [[Julia Tsenova|Julia Cenova]] (1948–2010)
* [[Janet Graham]] (born 1948)
* [[Kerstin Jeppsson]] (born 1948)
* [[Christina Kubisch]] (born 1948)
* [[Junko Mori (composer)|Junko Mori]] (born 1948)
* [[Ilza Nogueira]] (born 1948)
* [[Sally Johnston Reid]] (1948–2019)
* [[Shoshana Riseman]] (born 1948)
* [[Valerie Samson]] (born 1948)
* [[Ilona Sekacz]] (born 1948)
* [[Lyudmila Karpawna Shleh]] (born 1948)
* [[Bernadette Speach]] (born 1948)
* [[Ivana Stefanović]] (born 1948)
* [[Julia Tsenova]] (1948–2010)
* [[Carol Ann Weaver]] (born 1948)
* [[Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph]] (born 1948)
* [[Eleanor Alberga]] (born 1949)
* [[Carol E Barnett]] (born 1949)
* [[Liona Boyd]] (born 1949)
* [[Ann Callaway]] (born 1949)
* [[Rachel Galinne]] (born 1949)
* [[Alexina Louie]] (born 1949)
* [[Odaline de la Martinez]] (born 1949)
* [[Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva]] (1948–2023)
* [[Shulamit Ran]] (born 1949)
* [[Angela Ro Ro]] (born 1949)
* [[Sharon Ruchman]] (born 1949)
* [[Marjorie Rusche]] (born 1949)
* [[Ann Sandifur]] (born 1949)
* [[Kimi Sato]] (born 1949)
* [[Judith Shatin]] (born 1949)
* [[Marina Marta Vlad]] (born 1949)
* [[Rain Worthington]] (born 1949)
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==1950s==
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* [[Lejla Agolli]] (born 1950)
* [[Beth Anderson (composer)|Beth Anderson]] (born 1950)
* [[Édith Canat de Chizy]] (born 1950)
* [[Elena Firsova]] (born 1950)
* [[Åse Hedstrøm]] (born 1950)
* [[Yelena Sergeyevna Konshina]] (born 1950)
* [[Libby Larsen]] (born 1950)
* [[Elodie Lauten]] (1950–2014)
* [[Lam Manyee]] (born 1950)
* [[Vivienne Olive]] (born 1950)
* [[Synne Skouen]] (born 1950)
* [[Nancy Telfer]] (born 1950)
* [[Anneli Arho]] (born 1951)
* [[Beatriz Bilbao]] (born 1951)
* [[Karólína Eiríksdóttir]] (born 1951)
* [[Nancy Galbraith]] (born 1951)
* [[Halina Harelava]] (born 1951)
* [[Patricia Jünger]] (1951–2017)
* [[Joëlle Léandre]] (born 1951)
* [[Cecilia McDowall]] (born 1951)
* [[Liz Phillips]] (born 1951)
* [[Jeannie G. Pool]] (born 1951)
* [[Marcela Rodríguez (composer)|Marcela Rodríguez]] (born 1951)
* [[Doina Rotaru]] (born 1951)
* [[Tat'yana Sergeyeva]] (born 1951)
* [[Elizabeth Swados]] (1951–2016)
* [[Lois V Vierk]] (born 1951)
* [[Kristi Allik]] (born 1952)
* [[Judith Bingham]] (born 1952)
* [[Helen Bowater]] (born 1952)
* [[Nicole Carignan]] (born 1952)
* [[Maya Ciobanu]] (born 1952)
* [[Tina Davidson]] (born 1952)
* [[Janet Dunbar]] (born 1952)
* [[Margriet Hoenderdos]] (1952–2010)
* [[Grażyna Krzanowska]] (born 1952)
* [[Runa Laila]] (born 1952)
* [[Bunita Marcus]] (born 1952)
* [[Alla Pavlova]] (born 1952)
* [[Kaija Saariaho]] (1952–2023)
* [[Jane Sinclair Wells]] (born 1952)
* [[Lettie Alston]] (born 1953)
* [[Avril Anderson]] (born 1953)
* [[Sonja Beets]] (born 1953)
* [[Josefina Benedetti]] (born 1953)
* [[Susan Morton Blaustein]] (born 1953)
* [[Wendy Mae Chambers]] (born 1953)
* [[Chen Yi (composer)|Chen Yi]] (born 1953)
* [[Jody Diamond]] (born 1953)
* [[Violeta Dinescu]] (born 1953)
* [[Eibhlis Farrell]] (born 1953)
* [[Adriana Hölszky]] (born 1953)
* [[Anne LeBaron]] (born 1953)
* [[Cynthia Cozette Lee]] (born 1953)
* [[Anne Linnet]] (born 1953)
* [[Cindy McTee]] (born 1953)
* [[Lidia Zielińska]] (born 1953)
* [[Sylvie Bodorová]] (born 1954)
* [[Elisabetta Brusa]] (born 1954)
* [[Judith Cloud]] (born 1954)
* [[María Escribano]] (1954–2002)
* [[Susan Frykberg]] (1954–2023)
* [[Irina Hasnaş]] (born 1954)
* [[Birgit Havenstein]] (born 1954)
* [[Brenda Hutchinson]] (born 1954)
* [[Denise Kelly]] (born 1954)
* [[Hi Kyung Kim]] (born 1954)
* [[Renata Kunkel]] (born 1954)
* [[Bun-Ching Lam]] (born 1954)
* [[Pamela J. Marshall]] (born 1954)
* [[Ella Milch-Sheriff]] (born 1954)
* [[Betty Olivero]] (born 1954)
* [[Cecilie Ore]] (born 1954)
* [[Elizabeth Hayden Pizer]] (born 1954)
* [[Clare Shore]] (born 1954)
* [[Judith Weir]] (born 1954)
* [[Pearle Christian]] (born 1955)
* [[Eleanor Joanne Daley]] (born 1955)
* [[Susanne Erding-Swiridoff]] (born 1955)
* [[Elisenda Fabregas]] (born 1955)
* [[Diamanda Galás]] (born 1955)
* [[Gerda Geertens]] (born 1955)
* [[Anne La Berge]] (born 1955)
* [[Iryna Kyrylina]] (1953–2017)
* [[Lori Laitman]] (born 1955)
* [[Marilyn Mazur]] (born 1955)
* [[Anne Quigley]] (born 1955 or 1956)
* [[Masguda Shamsutdinova]] (born 1955)
* [[Karmella Tsepkolenko]] (born 1955)
* [[Janika Vandervelde]] (born 1955)
* [[Regina Harris Baiocchi]] (born 1956)
* [[Sally Beamish]] (born 1956)
* [[Chiara Benati]] (born 1956)
* [[Eve de Castro-Robinson]] (born 1956)
* [[Deborah Drattell]] (born 1956)
* [[Anne Dudley]] (born 1956)
* [[Michelle Ekizian]] (born 1956)
* [[Madeleine Isaksson]] (born 1956)
* [[Joan Jeanrenaud]] (born 1956)
* [[Laura Kaminsky]] (born 1956)
* [[Makiko Kinoshita]] (born 1956)
* [[Larysa Kuzmenko]] (born 1956)
* [[Mary McDonald (composer)|Mary McDonald]] (born 1956)
* [[Silvina Milstein]] (born 1956)
* [[Onutė Narbutaitė]] (born 1956)
* [[Marie Samuelsson]] (born 1956)
* [[Carla Scaletti]] (born 1956)
* [[Carolyn Steinberg]] (born 1956)
* [[Iris Szeghy]] (born 1956)
* [[Pamela Z]] (born 1956)
* [[Linda Bouchard]] (born 1957)
* [[Chaya Czernowin]] (born 1957)
* [[Ellen Fullman]] (born 1957)
* [[Regina Irman]] (born 1957)
* [[Elena Kats-Chernin]] (born 1957)
* [[Marcela Pavia]] (born 1957)
* [[Karin Rehnqvist]] (born 1957)
* [[Pan Shiji]] (born 1957)
* [[Linda Catlin Smith]] (born 1957)
* [[Joan Szymko]] (born 1957)
* [[Karen P. Thomas]] (born 1957)
* [[Melinda Wagner]] (born 1957)
* [[Janet Wheeler]] (born 1957)
* [[Juliana Hall]] (born 1958)
* [[Eve Beglarian]] (born 1958)
* [[Maura Bosch]] (born 1958)
* [[Rhona Clarke]] (born 1958)
* [[Zulema de la Cruz]] (born 1958)
* [[Beth Denisch]] (born 1958)
* [[Consuelo Díez]] (born 1958)
* [[Suzanne Giraud]] (born 1958)
* [[Juliana Hall]] (born 1958)
* [[Hanna Havrylets']] (1958–2022)
* [[Miya Masaoka]] (born 1958)
* [[Shirley Thompson (composer)|Shirley Thompson]] (born 1958)
* [[Errollyn Wallen]] (born 1958)
* [[Julia Wolfe]] (born 1958)
* [[Sinta Wullur]] (born 1958)
* [[Caroline Ansink]] (born 1959)
* [[Carola Bauckholt]] (born 1959)
* [[Ilona Breģe]] (born 1959)
* [[Sussan Deyhim]] (born ca. 1958)
* [[Marti Epstein]] (born 1959)
* [[Adina Izarra]] (born 1959)
* [[Laura Karpman]] (born 1959)
* [[Ana Lara]] (born 1959)
* [[Marianella Machado]] (born 1959)
* [[Hilda Paredes]] (born 1959)
* [[Tatyana Voronina]] (born 1959)
* [[Stevie Wishart]] (born 1959)
* [[Shimul Yousuf]] (born 1959)
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==1960s==
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* [[Maria de Alvear]] (born 1960)
* [[Sonia Bo]] (born 1960)
* [[Victoria Borisova-Ollas]] (born 1969)
* [[Yekaterina Chemberdzhi]] (born 1960)
* [[Andrea Clearfield]] (born 1960)
* [[Annie Gosfield]] (born 1960)
* [[Jindra Nečasová Nardelli]] (born 1960)
* [[Priti Paintal]] (born 1960)
* [[Jocelyn Pook]] (born 1960)
* [[Rachel Portman]] (born 1960)
* [[Maria Schneider (musician)|Maria Schneider]] (born 1960)
* [[Ute Wassermann]] (born 1960)
* [[Ana-Maria Avram]] (born 1961)
* [[Enya]] (born 1961)
* [[Unsuk Chin]] (born 1961)
* [[Julie Giroux]] (born 1961)
* [[Hanna Kulenty]] (born 1961)
* [[Michiru Oshima]] (born 1961)
* [[Janet Owen Thomas]] (1961–2002)
* [[Lourdes Perez]] (born 1961)
* [[Isabel Soveral]] (born 1961)
* [[Karen Tanaka]] (born 1961)
* [[Carolyn Yarnell]] (born 1961)
* [[Sylvia Constantinidis]] (born 1962)
* [[Mary Finsterer]] (born 1962)
* [[Jennifer Higdon]] (born 1962)
* [[Amy X Neuburg]] (born 1962)
* [[Victoria Poleva]] (born 1962)
* [[Rosephanye Powell]] (born 1962)
* [[Lolita Ritmanis]] (born 1962)
* [[Laura Schwendinger]] (born 1962)
* [[Alex Shapiro]] (born 1962)
* [[Chen Shihui]] (born 1962)
* [[Bettina Skrzypczak]] (born 1962)
* [[Allison Cameron (composer)|Allison Cameron]] (born 1963)
* [[Keiko Fujiie]] (born 1963)
* [[Joelle Khoury]] (born 1963)
* [[Veronika Krausas]] (born 1963)
* [[Sophie Lacaze]] (born 1963)
* [[Ann Millikan]] (born 1963)
* [[Isabel Mundry]] (born 1963)
* [[Halyna Ovcharenko]] (born 1963)
* [[Lucia Ronchetti]] (born 1963)
* [[Elena Ruehr]] (born 1963)
* [[Calliope Tsoupaki]] (born 1963)
* [[Hana Vejvodová]] (1963–1994)
* [[Debbie Wiseman]] (born 1963)
* [[Michiru Yamane]] (born 1963)
* [[Julia Gomelskaya]] (1964–2016)
* [[Gao Hong (composer)|Gao Hong]] (born 1964)
* [[Yoko Kanno]] (born 1964)
* [[Eva Noer Kondrup]] (born 1964)
* [[Gabriela Ortiz]] (born 1964)
* [[Sarah Peebles]] (born 1964)
* [[Annette Schlünz]] (born 1964)
* [[Augusta Read Thomas]] (born 1964)
* [[Mariana Villanueva]] (born 1964)
* [[Diane Wittry]] (born 1964)
* [[Jennifer Margaret Barker]] (born 1965)
* [[Carin Bartosch Edström]] (born 1965)
* [[Evelyn Glennie]] (born 1965)
* [[Björk Guðmundsdóttir]] (born 1965)
* [[Rozalie Hirs]] (born 1965)
* [[Yuki Kajiura]] (born 1965)
* [[Sofia Levkovskaya]] (1965–2011)
* [[Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska]] (born 1965)
* [[Charlotte Seither]] (born 1965)
* [[Georgia Spiropoulos]] (born 1965)
* [[Dorothy Hindman]] (born 1966)
* [[Melissa Hui]] (born 1966)
* [[Liza Lim]] (born 1966)
* [[Gráinne Mulvey]] (born 1966)
* [[Lauren Bernofsky]] (born 1967)
* [[Deirdre Gribbin]] (born 1967)
* [[Yukie Nishimura]] (born 1967)
* [[Rebecca Saunders]] (born 1967)
* [[Yoko Shimomura]] (born 1967)
* [[Katia Tiutiunnik]] (born 1967)
* [[Isidora Žebeljan]] (1967–2020)
* [[Laura Andel]] (born 1968)
* [[Lisa Bielawa]] (born 1968)
* [[Kerani]] (born 1968)
* [[Vanessa Lann]] (born 1968)
* [[Elainie Lillios]] (born 1968)
* [[Sarah MacDonald (musician)]] (born 1968)
* [[Olga Neuwirth]] (born 1968)
* [[Roxanna Panufnik]] (born 1968)
* [[Ana Sokolovic]] (born 1968)
* [[Anjelika Akbar]] (born 1969)
* [[Johanna Doderer]] (born 1969)
* [[Jocelyn Morlock]] (1969–2023)
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==1970s==
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* [[Siobhán Cleary]] (born 1970)
* [[Valerie Coleman]] (born 1970)
* [[Graziella Concas]] (born 1970)
* [[Marzena Komsta]] (born 1970)
* [[Chihchun Chi-sun Lee]] (born 1970)
* [[Lotta Wennäkoski]] (born 1970)
* [[Marina Leonardi]] (born 1970)
* [[Arlene Sierra]] (born 1970)
* [[Aleksandra Vrebalov]] (born 1970)
* [[Malika Kishino]] (born 1971)
* [[Soe Tjen Marching]] (born 1971)
* [[Katharina Rosenberger]] (born 1971)
* [[Ingrid Stölzel]] (born 1971)
* [[Jessica Grace Wing]] (1971–2003)
* [[Natasha Barrett (composer)|Natasha Barrett]] (born 1972)
* [[Emily Doolittle]] (born 1972)
* [[Amber Ferenz]] (born 1972)
* [[Gabriela Lena Frank]] (born 1972)
* [[Hiba Kawas]] (born 1972)
* [[Analia Llugdar]] (born 1972)
* [[Deborah Lurie]] (born 1972)
* [[Nkeiru Okoye]] (born 1972)
* [[Helena Tulve]] (born 1972)
* [[Zoe Keating]] (born 1972)
* [[Lera Auerbach]] (born 1973)
* [[Jessica Curry]] (born 1973)
* [[Tansy Davies]] (born 1973)
* [[Amanda Harberg]] (born 1973)
* [[Sungji Hong]] (born 1973)
* [[Amy Scurria]] (born 1973)
* [[Sarah Kirkland Snider]] (born 1973)
* [[Luna Pearl Woolf]] (born 1973)
* [[Selma Björnsdóttir]] (born 1974)
* [[Ellen C. Covito]] (born 1974)
* [[Meri von KleinSmid]] (born 1974)
* [[Ailís Ní Ríain]] (born 1974)
* [[Sophie Viney]] (born 1974)<ref>{{cite news|title=One enchanted evening|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/mar/11/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures1|accessdate=2020-11-10|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=11 March 2003|location=London|first=Angela|last=Partington}}</ref>
* [[Jennifer Walshe]] (born 1974)
* [[Dalit Warshaw]] (born 1974)
* [[Hyo-Won Woo]] (born 1974)
* [[Kati Agócs]] (born 1975)
* [[Eugenia Manolidou]] (born 1975)
* [[Linda Martinez]] (1975–2005)
* [[Raminta Šerkšnytė]] (born 1975)
* [[Annelies Van Parys]] (born 1975)
* [[Svitlana Azarova]] (born 1976)
* [[Rita Kassabian]] (born 1976)
* [[Catherine Kontz]] (born 1976)
* [[Andrea Reinkemeyer]] (born 1976)
* [[Wang Ying (composer)|Wang Ying]] (born 1976)
* [[Hafdís Bjarnadóttir]] (born 1977)
* [[Karola Obermueller]] (born 1977)
* [[Tanya Ekanayaka]] (born 1977)
* [[Deborah Pritchard]] (born 1977)
* [[Jennifer Thomas (pianist)]] (born 1977)
* [[Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir]] (Thorvaldsdottir) (born 1977)
* [[Du Yun]] (born 1977)
* [[Wu Fei (musician)|Wu Fei]] (born 1977)
* [[Kerry Andrew]] (born 1978)
* [[Justine Electra]] (born 1978)
* [[Emily Hall]] (born 1978)
* [[Vanessa-Mae]] (born 1978)
* [[Anna Meredith]] (born 1978)
* [[Agata Zubel]] (born 1978)
* [[Clarice Assad]] (born 1978)
* [[Annesley Black]] (born 1979)
* [[Emily Howard]] (born 1979)
* [[Kate Moore (composer)|Kate Moore]] (born 1979)
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==1980s==
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* [[Abbie Betinis]] (born 1980)
* [[Anna Clyne]] (born 1980)
* Andrea Datzman (born 1980)
* [[Cheryl Frances-Hoad]] (born 1980)
* [[Wang Jie (composer)|Wang Jie]] (born 1980)
* [[Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir]] (born 1980)
* [[Dobrinka Tabakova]] (born 1980)
* [[Missy Mazzoli]] (born 1980)
* [[Sarah Nemtsov]] (born 1980)
* [[Helen Grime]] (born 1981)
* [[Hannah Lash]] (born 1981)
* [[Angélica Negrón]] (born 1981)
* [[Charlotte Bray]] (born 1982)
* [[Hildur Guðnadóttir]] (born 1982)
* [[Natalie Ann Holt]] (born 1982)
* [[Shibani Kashyap]] (born 1982)
* [[Catherine Lamb]] (born 1982)
* [[Jessie Montgomery]] (born 1982)
* [[Caroline Shaw]] (born 1982)
* [[M. M. Srilekha]] (born 1982)
* [[Ann Cleare]] (born 1983)
* [[Reena Esmail]] (born 1983)
* [[Sneha Khanwalkar]] (1983)
* [[Sarah Hutchings]] (born 1984)
* [[Sasha Siem]] (born 1984)
* [[Cristina Spinei]] (born 1984)
* [[Dafina Zeqiri (composer)|Dafina Zeqiri]] (born 1984)
* [[Isobel Waller-Bridge]] (born 1984)
* [[Raquel García-Tomás]] (born 1984)
* [[Nina C. Young]] (born 1984)
* [[Zosha Di Castri]] (born 1985)
* [[Alissa Firsova]] (born 1986)
* [[Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian]] (born 1986)
* [[Pippa Cleary]] (born 1986)
* [[Kathryn Salfelder]] (born 1987)
* [[Shiva Feshareki]] (born 1987)
* [[Julia Adolphe]] (born 1988)
* [[:es:Andrea Casarrubios|Andrea Casarrubios]] (born 1988)
* [[Cecilia Damström]] (born 1988)
* [[Sarah Lianne Lewis]] (born 1988)
* [[Bára Gísladóttir]] (born 1989)
* [[Elizabeth Ogonek]] (born 1989)
* [[Freya Waley-Cohen]] (born 1989)
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==1990s==
*[[Sonya Belousova]] (born 1990)
*[[Anja Plaschg]] (born 1990)
*[[Lucy Armstrong]] (born 1991)
*[[Jasmine Arielle Barnes]] (born 1991)
*[[Georgia Koumará]] (born 1991)
*[[Diana Ringo]] (born 1992)
*[[Anna Appleby]] (born 1993)
*[[Dani Howard]] (born 1993)
*[[Lillie Harris]] (born 1994)
*[[Grace-Evangeline Mason]] (born 1994)

==2000s==
* [[Emily Bear]] (born 2001)
* [[Alma Deutscher]] (born 2005)

==Unknown==
* [[Winifred Phillips]] (living; born in the 20th century)
* [[Yuka Tsujiyoko]] (living; born in the 20th century)

== See also ==
* [[List of Australian women composers]]
* [[Lists of composers]]
* [[List of 20th-century classical composers]]
* [[List of women film score composers]]
* [[Trobairitz]] women [[troubadour]]s
* [[:Category:Women composers]]
* [[Women in music]]

==References==
===Notes===
{{notelist}}

===Citations===
{{Reflist|30em}}

===Sources===
* [[Marcia Citron|Citron, Marcia J.]] (1990). "Gender, Professionalism and the Musical Canon", ''[[The Journal of Musicology]]'' vol. 8, no. 1, pp.&nbsp;102–117. {{JSTOR|763525}}{{subscription required}}
* {{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |year=1987a |orig-year=1981 |title=[[International Encyclopedia of Women Composers]] |edition=2nd |volume=1 |publisher=[[R. R. Bowker]] |location=Chatham |isbn=978-0-9617485-2-4 |oclc=16714846 }}
* {{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |year=1987b |orig-year=1981 |title=[[International Encyclopedia of Women Composers]] |edition=2nd |volume=2 |publisher=[[R. R. Bowker]] |location=Chatham |isbn=978-0-9617485-2-4 |oclc=16714846 }}
*List partially created using Grove's "Explore" function, ''[[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music Online]]'', ed. L. Macy (accessed 23 September 2006), [http://www.grovemusic.com/ grovemusic.com] {{subscription required}}.

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web|url=http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm|title=Women Composers|publisher=Kapralova Society|access-date=23 July 2013}}
* Briscoe, James R. (ed.) (1986). ''Historical Anthology of Music by Women''. Indiana University Press. {{ISBN|0-253-21296-0}}
* Gates, Eugene (2006). [http://www.kapralova.org/journal7.pdf "The Woman Composer Question: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives"]  ''Kapralova Society Journal'', vol. 4, issue 2. Accessed 23 November 2020.
* Launay, Florence (2006). ''Les Compositrices en France au XIXe siècle''. Paris: Fayard. {{ISBN|2-213-62458-5}}
* The [https://simuc.org/publications/reports/db2022/ 2022 report] of the [[International Society for Chilean Music]] contains information on many Chilean female composers and performers. Their data relating to women composers and performers can be searched and filtered on its database.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Society for Chilean Music Database |url=https://simuc.org/database/}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/page/1900 Timeline] of Women Composers by ''[[Grove Music Online]]''
* [https://www.iawm.org International Alliance for Women in Music]
* [http://www.kapralova.org/BIBLIOGRAPHY.htm The Woman Composer Question] a bibliography by Dr. Eugene Gates
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060617160023/http://www.compositrices19.net/ French women composers]}} (in French)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080921224104/http://compositoras.acimus.org/compositoras/bienvenida.html List of Iberoamerican and Spanish Women composers] by Dr. Cecilia Piñero Gil
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040203181314/http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/noboys/lady.html "And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers"] by Pauline Oliveros
* [https://imslp.org/wiki/User:Clark_Kimberling/Historical_Notes_7 Historical Notes for collection of melodies by women composers]
* [https://albarosavietor.com/female-composers-audio/ Audio links Female Composers 19th, 20th en 21st century]

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