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Vivian Fine

Vivian Great anchored the initial wave of women composers in twentieth-century America. Before Ruth Crawford (1901 – 1953), “arguably history’s initial major girl composer” in Kyle Gann’s watch, Amy Marcy Cheney (Mrs. H.H.A.) Seaside (1867 – 1944) wrote the first noted symphonic function by an American girl — a Gaelic …

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