[log in to unmask] writes:

>Does it make any difference to you if you know that the piece of music you
>are listening to was composed by a woman?

No.  But then, it wouldn't make any difference to me if I found out that JS
Bach was actually an Icelandic female impersonator of the 15th century.
(Yeah, I know, this secret is actually common knowledge.) The non-musical
"specifics" of a composer are of interest to me only in so far as I have an
extra-musical interest in the composer's culture.  But why should it matter
if Tailleferre's music was composed by a woman? The music isn't
gender-specific.

By the way, I forgot to mention one of my favorite 20th century composers
earlier, when we considering women-as-composers:  Jean Coulthard.

Barry Brenesal