Femmes de légende

This concert unfolds the captivating story of legendary women: Highly gifted female musicians whose art was only allowed to flourish behind closed doors. Brilliant female composers who should be mentioned in the same breath as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Artist couples in whom often only the male part is established in the canon of music history.

Pianist Lydia Maria Bader juxtaposes well-known works by Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann or Claude Debussy with fascinating music by "unheard-of" female composers: Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Mel Bonis and Cécile Chaminade.

These women were once friends, partners, or fellow students of famous male composers and were highly respected in their day, yet their works have been largely passed over by historians.

In this concert full of musical discoveries, the female composers are given their rightful place alongside their male colleagues, a place they have earned through their ravishing music.