Music By Women

An industrious searcher after rccondite facts has prepared a list of musical compositions by women, extended from 1675 to 1885. It includes üfty-flve serious operas, fifty-three comlc operas and two oratorios, besides a few cantatas, bailad operas, etc. Songs and detached pieces for piano aro not included; yet the best-known musical compositions by women, Fran Schumann's contributions to her husband's song collections and Fanny Mendelssohn's assistance to her brother in bis "Songs Without Words," aro comprised in these two M .L ft.