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Women's History Spotlight: Amy Beach

Women's History: Amy Beach

Amy Beach was the first American woman to succeed as a composer writing large-scale musical works.

The Boston Symphony premiered her Gaelic Symphony, which you can hear in the player above, in 1896.

It was the first large orchestral work composed by a woman to be performed by an American Orchestra.

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