Female Composers Poster Set 2

Introduce your students to 12 more of the greatest female composers in history!  From well-known composers to the lesser known, these posters will demonstrate to students that not all composers are men!  Women have been writing music for centuries, and these posters give a broad representation of that fact. 
Suggested for grades 4-12

An Online Companion is available with purchase that provides the following digital content for each composer:

• Biography
• Quick Facts about the composer
• 1 Activity (word search, crossword, guided notes, quizzes, listening maps)
• 1 Assessment
• Links to suggested reading
• Links to Spotify playlists
• Printable PDFs

Each portrait was painted by hand with brush and ink by UK artist Margit van der Zwan, with blocks of color added in digitally.  These artistic posters are printed on museum-grade cardstock and are 11"x17" each. 

Composers in Set 2 include:

• Kassia (810-865)
• Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590)
• Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812)
• Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
• Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
• Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
• Alice Coltrane (1937-2007)
• Kaija Saariaho (1952-)
• Shirley Thompson (1958-)
• Judith Weir (1954-)