Louise Farrenc: Nonet for Winds and Strings

"Introduces students, performers, and conductors to the musical world of Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), a composer, pianist, and teacher who wrote chamber music and symphonies in an era when few women did. Explains how and why the Nonet is an exceptional work, but representative of her style and the setting of nineteenth-century Paris"--

Marie Sumner Lott is Associate Professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University. She is the author The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music (2015), which was awarded the AMS 75 PAYS publication subvention from the American Musicological Society, and over a dozen articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century chamber music.