List Of Female Composers By Birth Year
The following is a list of female composers, ordered by their year of birth.
Female composers are also listed alphabetically at List of female composers by name.
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Went down the list of the dead.
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—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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