Composer to Discover

The Festival Musikdorf Ernen aims to introduce its audience to outstanding female composers from the past. Beyond quotas or occasional efforts, the Musikdorf focuses each season on one female composer from the past and presents her music to the festival audience in a purposeful and comprehensive manner. This makes it clear that female composers who have created a broad and high-quality body of work have been around for a long time and deserve to be discovered in the concert hall at last!

© Association Mel Bonis© Association Mel Bonis

© Association Mel Bonis

Mel Bonis (1858–1937)

Touching music, a life straight out of a movie

For a long time, the common opinion was that composing was a man's business, and that serious female composers existed only in exceptional cases at best. However, it has long been ...