Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. List of Tables xiii
5. List of Music Examples xiv
6. Notes on Contributors xv
7. Acknowledgements xxv
8. Introduction: On the Global Trail of Women Pianists 1
9. Part 1: East Asia to Africa
10. 1 Re-Hearing the First Generation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women Pianists 17
11. 2 ‘Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky’: Maoist Feminism and Class Politics in the Career of Gu Shengying 38
12. 3 The Musical Fusion of East and West: Deh-Fang Swen Lai’s Piano Works 52
13. 4 Shifting Meanings of Piano Playing for Women in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey 70
14. 5 A Tale of Two Pianos: Women Egyptian Pianists in the Twentieth Century 89
15. Part 2: Russia to Eastern Europe
16. 6 Mapping Russian Female Pianists (1850–1917): From Sabinina to Scriabina 115
17. 7 On the Move: Women Pianist-Composers from Finland and Estonia from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century 136
18. 8 (Un)silencing Czech Nineteenth-Century Women Pianists 156
19. 9 The ‘Misses’ of the Romanian Piano Scene: Threads of the German Pedagogical Tradition in Bucharest 178
20. Part 3: Across Western Europe
21. 10 Delphine von Schauroth, Class, and the Path of the Artist 197
22. 11 Women Recording Piano Rolls: A Case Study on Philipps Duca 213
23. 12 Narrating Women Pianists’ Careers in Interwar France through Simone Plé’s Le Rôle des femmes dans les carrières musicales 237
24. 13 The Transatlantic Lives of Gaby Casadesus 256
25. 14 Harriet Cohen’s British-Jewish Identity on the International Stage 273
26. Part 4: South to North America
27. 15 ‘Make Way, I’m Coming Through’: The Legacy of Chiquinha Gonzaga 293
28. 16 Marie Majoie Hajary: A Surinamese Family History as Podium Identity and Source of Inspiration 309
29. 17 Rosa García Ascot: Spanish Pianist-Composer and Exile 330
30. 18 Visibility, Historiography, and Gender: Gwendolyn Koldofsky’s Impact on North American Song Accompaniment 347
31. 19 Flourishing Musical Lives and the Impact of Enduring Relationships: Grete Sultan and Tui St. George Tucker 364
32. Index 383