Review: Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World, Leah Broad, Faber 2023
Leah Broad’s Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World (Faber 2023) is an exhilarating read. The author immerses us in the lives of four composers who have been forgotten (or, perhaps better put, have been excised) from western music history and canon: Ethel Smyth (b. 1858),