International Women's Day: Women Composers in RISM

Thursday, March 6, 2025

In 2017 we celebrated the International Women’s Day by publishing a list of all women composers found in the RISM database.

Following a 2021 update, it is time to yet again publish a revised list to reflect RISM’s ever more complete coverage. The list that in 2017 included 800 names, and expanded to a thousand lines by 2021, has in the meantime grown further and now presents close to 1600 women composers.

In RISM Online our users can search for women composers in even more detail. You can find all women composers under this link.

This list includes almost 1700 names, whereby some of the composers in question are not linked to any sources in the RISM database. But RISM Online also offers further options, like selecting “Role: Composer” to restrict your search to women composers whose works can be found in RISM (at least in part). And you could make your hit list even more focused by specifying further functions (such as pianist or singer), or even a place associated with the person.

Catégorie: Evénements