Needless to say, if Emilie Mayer had been a man, this quartet would be in the repertoire of nearly any string quartet performing the romantic literature.
I doubt it. Emilie Mayer was relatively widely received in her time and had a successful career as a composer during her lifetime. Her works fell out of popularity on their own merit, being highly conservative even by standards of her time. The only reason that they have been revived and recorded in recent years is precisely because they were written by a woman and not a man.
Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I posted my comment based on my opinion of the worthiness of this composition. Seeing this on a program would be a far greater inducement for me to attend than any of dozens of quartets that I see repeated endlessly on programs and of which there are hundreds if not thousands of recordings, despite being no better than this one.
@@StanleyGrillthat's more to do with the idolisation of a relatively small number of composers. The only correlation with gender is that the majority of composers in the 19th century were male. There are plenty of compositions by male composers that have been neglected and fallen out of the concert repertoire that I'm sure you'd love if you heard them.
@@lukefowler9740 That's true enough. Personally, as example, I'm not a big Mendelssohn fan, other than a handful of works of his, yet his works, good and bad, are constantly programmed and recorded. And there is a long list of overlooked male composers from that period. Gernsheim immediately springs to mind - and the oversight of his music is probably primarily due to the mistake of his being born Jewish (and not hiding it) in Germany. All that said, I do find that whatever the sparsity of women composers there have been, Mayer is not the only one who wrote music of worth that has been overlooked. I don't think the impact of centuries of belief that no woman could produce anything of worth can be simply ignored.
I was searching for music by Amanda Maier but found this magnificent string quartet by EMILIE MAYER. A very fine discovery ! Thanks.
both are terrific composers!
This is a beautiful and well constructed work. This composer is well worth following up on. I liked the symphony #1 also.
She is a lost great composer
Nice easy music, but not for repeated listening. I prefer her piano concerto in B.
Needless to say, if Emilie Mayer had been a man, this quartet would be in the repertoire of nearly any string quartet performing the romantic literature.
Try to judge art on its merits, not based on secondary features of the artist.
I doubt it. Emilie Mayer was relatively widely received in her time and had a successful career as a composer during her lifetime. Her works fell out of popularity on their own merit, being highly conservative even by standards of her time. The only reason that they have been revived and recorded in recent years is precisely because they were written by a woman and not a man.
Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I posted my comment based on my opinion of the worthiness of this composition. Seeing this on a program would be a far greater inducement for me to attend than any of dozens of quartets that I see repeated endlessly on programs and of which there are hundreds if not thousands of recordings, despite being no better than this one.
@@StanleyGrillthat's more to do with the idolisation of a relatively small number of composers. The only correlation with gender is that the majority of composers in the 19th century were male. There are plenty of compositions by male composers that have been neglected and fallen out of the concert repertoire that I'm sure you'd love if you heard them.
@@lukefowler9740 That's true enough. Personally, as example, I'm not a big Mendelssohn fan, other than a handful of works of his, yet his works, good and bad, are constantly programmed and recorded. And there is a long list of overlooked male composers from that period. Gernsheim immediately springs to mind - and the oversight of his music is probably primarily due to the mistake of his being born Jewish (and not hiding it) in Germany. All that said, I do find that whatever the sparsity of women composers there have been, Mayer is not the only one who wrote music of worth that has been overlooked. I don't think the impact of centuries of belief that no woman could produce anything of worth can be simply ignored.