Anne Ozorio wrote: >The reason I talk about these things is nor to disagree with you, but >because the real role of women composers has been obscured by a lot of >well meaning but inaccurate pseudo feminist ideology - the same "special >pleading" for Alma which raises her as an icon of male victimisation. >What Clara and Robert really did is even more remarkable when seen on >its own terms. I agree on both points. For me the ideology stems from an attempt to categorize, something, I believe, we humans tend to do, even when there is no need to do so. Writing this I am reminded of the BBC series, "Hilda Tablet, Composeress." Only the British could have come up with that... Karl