Cosima Wagner
Composer and co-founder of the Bayreuth Festival
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
American composer and pianist
Anna Bartlett Warner
American novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym of Amy Lothrop
Maud Powell
American violinist
Daisy Bannard Cogley
Irish theatre director and producer, actor and singer
Adelaide Kemble
English opera singer and author
Amalie Materna
Austrian opera singer who became one of the greatest sopranos of the early Wagnerian opera, and was for some years a favorite singer at the Metropolitan Opera house, New York City.
Rosetta Buckingham
Star of the the Buckingham Family entertainers troupe
Cécile Chaminade
French musical composer
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist. She is also credited with founding Sweet Honey in the Rock, an all-female and all-Black acapella group. Much of her work centers Black identity and social justice and many of her musical projects highlight the Civil Rights Era.