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The following is a list of famous female composers:
- Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720-1795)
- Frances Allitsen (1849-1912)
- Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia (1723-1787)
- Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1723-1787)
- Beth Anderson
- Ruth Anderson
- Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
- Caterina Assandra (1580-1632)
- Cecilia Maria Barthelemon (c.1769-1840)
- Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
- Amy Beach (1867-1944)
- Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1843)
- Marie Bigot (1786-1820)
- Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768-1818)
- Wendy Carlos (born 1939)
- Unsuk Chin (born 1961)
- Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
- Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848)
- Sophia Corri Dussek (1775-1847)
- Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
- Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
- Johanna Mathieux Kinkel (1810-1858)
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
- Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
- Joan La Barbara (born 1947)
- Josephine Lang (1815-1880)
- Annea Lockwood (born 1939)
- Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)
- Maria Malibran (1808-1836)
- Meredith Monk (born 1942)
- Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
- Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
- Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808-1877)
- Pauline Oliveros (born 1932)
- Maria Hester Park (1775-1822)
- Louise Reichardt (1779-1826)
- Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
- Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
- Laurie Spiegel (born 1945)
- Elizabeth Stirling (1819-1895)
- Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
- Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
- Louise Talma (1906-1996)
- Joan Tower (born 1938)
- Lois V. Vierk (born 1951)
- Judith Weir (born 1954)
- Ellen Wright (born 1904)
