When writing MADAME COMPOSER I decided to play a game-- how many women composers could I reasonably fit on these pages??? The next newsletter is the answer PLUS the list of names... Want it in your inbox? Signup: sarahfritz.substack.com

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Author of MADAME COMPOSER: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann, a composer of 19th-century Germany, by Sarah Fritz. Now available for preorder. Out September 29. Click to read The Clara Schumann Ch...

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Very excellent preorder sale for the UK edition of MADAME COMPOSER this week @waterstones.bsky.social !!! tidd.ly/4uxQNQW

Newsletter sent! Check your inboxes for my answer to the "Brahms Question" hehe open.substack.com/pub/sarahfri...

"What happened with Brahms?"

My answer to the question I get from everyone

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I’m always astonished how everyone—even the pros & academics—asks me “what happened with Brahms”😂 so I made a new yt video with my answer! youtu.be/W8DYag_B7rM?...

Brahms & Clara Schumann—the Truth Behind the Slander

YouTube video by The Clara Schumann Channel

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Last day to make edits and fix my mistakes--- ah! Then she's off to the printers to hit bookstore shelves on Sept. 29. Phew! Nice to have Clara looking over my shoulder this whole way. Hope I got some things right!!!!🤪

*Newsletter alert* Did you know Robert Schumann was probably bi and Clara's youngest daughter was definitely a lesbian??? Happy Pride!🏳️‍🌈 open.substack.com/pub/sarahfri...

Happy Pride! LGBTQ+ Friends in Clara Schumann's Life

Plus an endorsement from Yannick for MADAME COMPOSER

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New YouTube video— if you wanna hear about my panic attack when I realized I had to put composer in the title…. & why! youtu.be/LY8cQDW2cuw?si

Announcing my new book — MADAME COMPOSER: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann

YouTube video by The Clara Schumann Channel

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Yall, the cover blurbs for MADAME COMPOSER are coming in and... omg they're so good...😱😭 I've spent sooo long just hoping people would like it and... yeah, so far so good!!! Phew!

My favorite composer, Clara Schumann died #OTD in 1896. I wrote one about the myths and the truth... sarahfritz.substack.com/p/how-clara-...

How Clara Schumann Died

The myths and the truth behind her last days

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MADAME COMPOSER: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann will also be releasing in the UK Oct. 29 with its own fabulous cover... Preorder is here! thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...

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Sarah Fritz@sarahfritz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is (finally) available for pre-order! In book stores Sept. 29... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame...

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann is (finally) available for pre-order! In book stores Sept. 29... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame...

TOMORROW is the book cover reveal for my new bio of Clara Schumann, MADAME COMPOSER, in my newsletter! Can't wait to share it with yall. It's beautiful. If you want it in your inbox... sarahfritz.substack.com

I recently heard there’s a new PBS doc about Clara Schumann & I looked it up & it’s about Brahms.😂 Of course.🙄 Kinda puts home how the most interesting thing about him IS Clara Schumann….

Clara Schumann is playing off broadway thru May 10th!!! 🥳 I’m doing Saturday night post-show Q&As with the star-playwright-pianist Elena Mazzon who plays Clara’s works beautifully throughout her one-woman show.🎹😍 www.59e59.org/shows/show-d...

FYI I finished the book. MADAME COMPOSER, my new bio of Clara Schumann will be here in September... phew!!!

My social media hiatus has officially come to an end. It was very good for my mental health while it lasted!

I went WAY more political than normal in this month’s newsletter—thanks to the movies SINNERS & K-POP DEMON HUNTERS🙌🏻🥳 Best movies of the year with mega music plots!!! The classical music industry could take notes. sarahfritz.substack.com/p/music-movi...

When Music Meets Evil

My thoughts on Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, new movies on music that I highly recommend!

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Clara Schumann: Warum willst du and’re fragen w/ Town Quartet. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio. #cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers

I’m enjoying my social media hiatus—focusing on writing for a while. I’m still doing the newsletter though, linking Clara Schumann to current events. Timeless problems: open.substack.com/pub/sarahfri...

Clara Schumann, the Revolutionary!

What protest looked like in 1848-49

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The opening of Clara Schumann's concerto, composed when she was 15 and premiered with Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Can't wait to perform this with the BBC Philharmonic and Nicholas Carter at Malvern Theatres, 9 May! 🎉 malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/bbc-ph...

Today, a brief history of Fanny Hensel's Easter Sonata 🐰🐣🪺💐🎹 and some lore about the origins of Henselpushers.

A lovely review of Myra book just out from Michael Church in the Camden New Journal 😍 www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/why-...

Why Myra was much more than the ‘Queen Mother of classical music’

With a grace that was rarely matched, Myra Hess single-handedly changed Britain’s musical landscape, writes Michael Church

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with Jeff, some number crunching for VAN on the overlap between MAGA donors and classical music philanthropy. turns out it's quite high! van-magazine.com/mag/republic...

These Are The Top Republican Donors Also Donating To Classical Music

Which donors to classical music also donate to the Make America Great Again movement?

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If anyone wants to read more, I wrote about her in NYT last summer! www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/a...

An 18th-Century Phenom Arrives at Lincoln Center

The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center will play Marianna Martines’s Symphony in C, a milestone for a composer whose music mostly fell silent after her death.

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This weekend I spent time with the bust of 70yr old Clara Schumann in the Vienna Musikverein. Of the dozens of composer busts in the building… she’s the only woman.

Is it Clara or Robert?...and submit...we'll see...

Out today: The Faber Music Women Composers Piano Anthology 🎹Suitable for intermediate pianists 💐Over 50 pieces from women spanning several centuries 🎼Many pieces in print for the first time 🖼️Featuring 'A Conversation' by Vanessa Bell on the cover #IWD2025

Search traffic is up for Fanny Hensel's String Quartet... so I'd like to remind everyone that the most widely used edition--and therefore most performances--are wrong. tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's long version:

It's been ages (okay a few months) since I've posted about the Beach Violin Sonata, so just to stay in shape let me recommend that you listen without delay to the slow movement, whose climax is the Romantic violin sonata equivalent of falling into the vat of liquid metal at the end of Terminator 2

Sonata, Op. 34: III. Largo con dolore

YouTube video by Tasmin Little - Topic

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