You know, that's kind of offensive considering all of the real pre-1900 female composers they could have chosen.

- Darcy
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On 04 Feb 2005, at 11:44 AM, Phil Daley wrote:

This brought to mind a thing that happened when I was in high school. The HS band director also taught music history which I didn't take, but my girl friend did. She told me this story:


The teacher said that before 1900 (1950, something like that) there were no major female composers. This annoyed them greatly, so when he assigned a paper on "a major composer", several of the girls in the class "invented" a female Russian composer who lived in the early 1800s. They all submitted papers based on this fictitious women, complete with dates, repertoire, etc. He was quite taken aback that he had never heard of this "composer" up until he figured out it was a hoax. Good thing that he had a good sense of humor ;-)

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