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Susan Tomes

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A new album that sheds light on the extraordinary talent of female composers who have been overlooked in the history of piano musicHyperion is releasing Women and the Piano, an album by Susan Tomesa leading British pianist and writerwho set out to give female composers and pianists, long overshadowed by history, the recognition they deserve. This is Tomes first solo album; it traces 250 years of piano music history and features works by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ccile Chaminade, and the prominent American composer Amy Beach, alongside compositions by at least seven largely unknown female composers. There are also surprising discoveries, such as the Sonata in A Major by Marianne Martnez, Haydns first piano student, and the Capriccio by Maria Szymanowska, the renowned Polish pianist who was appointed the first-ever court pianist at the St. Petersburg court of the Russian empress. The albu