This book is extremely popular and beautifully written... If you love music or know someone who does, this book is definitely the best gift for the holidays.
It is so fortunate that all these creative women have finally received the recognition they deserve. We should be grateful and respectful to Arno Lucke, as he has drawn our attention to these great musicians.
—Elke Heidenreich (German writer, TV presenter, literary critic and journalist. Her work "Back to the World" has been published in China) — Spiegel Online

"Reading is a pleasure and opens up new horizons." - Rainer Nonnemann - New Music Paper

"Even in the history of music, men still predominate - and this is unfair, as Arno Lucero's book impressively demonstrates." - Thilo Braun - SWR2

"A Grand Convergence of Text and Sound" - Lydia Jeschke - "Southwest Radio Station"

"Arnold approached his research topic with great enthusiasm, which also infected the readers." - "Orchestra"

Thanks to meticulous research and modern media, many works by suppressed and forgotten female composers can now be experienced again. - Martin Kugler, The News Paper

"These glittering portraits do not claim to be exhaustive, but they will draw you in to discover them through the linked playlist." —— Frankfurter Rundschau

This book is indispensable. It opens up more than 250 possibilities for new popular melodies. - Tiroler Tageszeitung

★ Bestseller rankings on Amazon Germany:
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★ This exquisite book is jointly created by renowned German musicologist and Hans Stiebler Prize-winning composer Arno Luicker, award-winning designer of the "Most Beautiful German Book" title, German Design Club and Red Dot Design Academy member Jana Gess, and others.
★Produced by the collectible series brand "the Other Library"! This brand is committed to becoming "the most beautiful book series in the world" (as evaluated by Time Magazine). Each book features an extremely high level of production and presentation, integrating the unique aesthetic elements of top German book designers, perfectly blending knowledge with visual enjoyment.

This is a musical journey exploring the unknown and unheard voices.
Hardly any social and artistic field is as deeply rooted in tradition as the world of classical music. Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Verdi and Wagner dominate the stages of concert halls and opera houses. But even today, why are the names of female composers still rarely found in their repertoire? Most people interested in music can probably only name Clara Schumann, Hildegard von Bingen, and perhaps Fanny Mendelssohn. But there are many more! For years, Arno Lucien has been dedicated to bringing classical music to the present and researching the lives and music of female composers. Most of them had to overcome numerous obstacles to fight for their own creative space.
This book brings together 250 female composers from all over the world and across several centuries. Through fascinating short portraits, he immerses us in the lives of these musicians. And a question always lingers: What do these unknown pieces of music sound like? Arno Lucien opens our eyes and ears to listen to those unheard voices.

Arno Luckner (Author)
Arno Luckner was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1979. He studied musicology and philosophy and is currently a musicologist, music critic, pianist and composer. From 2008 to 2010, he worked at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, both on and off the air. From 2010 to 2013, he served as a dramaturg at the Berliner Philharmonie, and since then has been a freelance consultant. He also teaches musicology at Philipps-Universität Marburg and writes for the leading opera industry magazine Opernwelt.
In 2000, he won the Hans Stieber Prize (the composition award of the Halle Festival) for his Variations on a Prokofiev Theme, premiered by the Sortisatio Ensemble. He has published articles in various musicology journals and has been an active music critic, including writing for the Berliner Morgenpost and Neue Musikzeitung. His works have been broadcast by Bavarian Radio, Deutschlandradio and other stations. Since 2008, he has been the managing director of the Berliner Ensemble für Neue Musik.
From 2019 to 2023, he wrote the highly acclaimed series "250 Women Composers" for VAN magazine, profiling female musicians from around the world, across centuries and eras - up to the present day. For this, in 2021, he developed and managed a website dedicated to finding female composers. This book is based on that series and has been carefully selected and compiled for publication.

Rainer Wieland (Editor)
Rainer Wieland was born in 1968 in Weißenburg, Bavaria, and currently resides in Berlin. He is an editor, proofreader, and author.
Since August 2024, he has been the co-editor-in-chief of the "Another Library" collection series with Nelle Holdack. They uphold the series' tradition while broadening its scope to encompass various genres, eras, and cultural spaces. Founded in 1985 with the philosophy of "We only print books we ourselves want to read," the brand aspires to be "the most beautiful book series in the world" (as Time magazine put it). Each book is exquisitely produced and presented, incorporating the unique aesthetic elements of Germany's top book designers, seamlessly blending knowledge with visual pleasure. Over the years, its works have won numerous awards, including "Most Beautiful German Book," the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, and Amazon bestseller status. A "non-classical" classic has gradually emerged, and a truly "distinctive" library has come into being.
Rainer Wieland has published many highly acclaimed books and anthologies, including "The Book of Travel," "The Book of Diaries," and "The World of Encyclopedias" (co-authored with Annette Selger, a folio edition of "Another Library").

Chiara Jacobs (Illustrator)
Chiara Jacobs was born in Hamburg in 1999. She has been passionate about drawing since childhood and was encouraged during her time at a Waldorf school to pursue her creativity as a career path. In 2021, she began an apprenticeship in graphic design at Lette Verein Berlin, while also working as a freelancer in the fields of logo design, animation, and illustration.

Jenna Goss (Designer)
Jenna Goss is a freelance designer and copywriter from Berlin. Designing books for various publishers and institutions is her main focus and passion. Since 2015, she has regularly taught book design and typesetting at universities such as the University of Bielefeld, the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, and the Lettner Institute in Berlin.
She has served as a judge for book design competitions in Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Mexico. Her works have won numerous awards, including those from the German Book Art Foundation (Stiftung Buchkunst), the German Printing and Media Association (BVZ), the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club, the German Designers Club, and the Reddot Institute. The publications she co-created and designed, "Applause Space" and "The Royal Road to Misfortune," were named "The Most Beautiful German Books."