Episode 1: Pauline Viardot
Webpages
Pauline Viardot-García
Ivan Turgenev
Manuel Garcia
Further Reading
Figes, O. (2020). EUROPEANS: Three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture. S.l.: Penguin Books.
Episode 2: Régine Wieniawski (aka Poldowski)
Webpages
“Poldowski in Concert.”
Henryk Wieniawski
Further Listening
“Poldowski Re-Imagined”
Further Reading
Brand, M. F. (1979). Poldowski (Lady Dean Paul): Her life and her song settings of French and English poetry (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Oregon.
Kness, K. (2012). An analytical comparison of the art song style of Poldowski with the styles of Debussy and Fauré (Unpublished master’s thesis). Indiana University.
Waugh, E., & Jacobs, R. (2011). Vile bodies. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Episode 3: Alma Mahler-Werfel
Webpages
Alma Mahler-Werfel
Gustav Mahler
Further Listening
Tom Lehrer, “Alma”
Further Reading
Connolly, Sarah. “The Alma Problem.” The Guardian, 2 December 2010.
Haste, Cate. (2019). Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler. Basic Books.
Hilmes, Oliver. (2015). Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler. Northeastern.
Keegan, Susanne. (1992). The bride of the wind. Viking.
Mahler-Werfel, Alma and Beaumont, Antony (ed.) (2000). Diaries, 1898-1902. Faber & Faber.
Episode 4: Fanny Hensel
Webpages
Fanny Hensel
Felix Mendelssohn
Further Reading
Gates, Eugene. (2018). Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: A Life of Music within Domestic Limits.
Bar-Shany, Michael. (2005). The Roman Holiday of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
Fanny Mendelssohn’s response to the epidemic of 1831. (2020, May 18).
Episode 5: Clara Schumann
Webpages
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
The Famous Piano at the Robert Schumann Museum!
Further Reading
Reich, N. B. (1995). Clara Schumann, the artist and the woman. Ithaca, NY, NY: Cornell University Press.
Episode 6: Liza Lehmann
Webpages
Rudolph Lehmann’s Portrait Collection at the British Museum
Amelia (Chambers) Lehmann’s Compositions and Arrangements
Herbert Bedford
David Bedford
Steuart Bedford
Further Reading
Lehmann, L. (1919). The Life of Liza Lehmann: With coloured frontispiece by Herbert Bedford and 17 other illustr. New York, NY: Dutton.
Episode 6: Radclyffe Hall
Further Reading
Souhami, D. (1998). The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Episode 7: Augusta Holmès
Webpages
Augusta Holmès
The (In)famous Piano Quintet
“The Daughters of Catulle Mendès”
Further Reading
Page, R. P. (1921). Augusta Holmès: Une musicienne versaillaise. Versailles: Paris.
Friang, M. (2003). Augusta Holmès ou la gloire interdite. Paris: Editions Autremont.
Henson, K. (1997). In the House of Disillusion: Augusta Holmès and “La Montagne noire”. Cambridge Opera Journal, 9(3), 233-262.
Episode 8: Amice Calverley
Webpages
Amice Calverley Biography (available as pdf)
Amice Calverley’s Music at the Canadian Music Centre
Sybil Salvin Calverley Rampen
Further Reading
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