Anna Vilenskaya in Amsterdam. "Women in Music: From Hildegarde to Taylor Swift" 27 October 2025

Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer and researcher of contemporary music. She has changed the approach of telling about music towards visualization, simplicity, emotionality and practical benefits for the listener.

The topic of the lecture: Women in music: from Hildegarde to Taylor Swift

Let's try to understand whether Chernigovskaya and others are really right when they say that we have no new female "Mozarts". Let's trace the history of women composers from the Middle Ages (Hildegard of Bingen) to the present (Galina Ustvolskaya, Taylor Swift). Let's talk about what it meant to be a woman in the musical world of different eras. Let's compare women's music with the compositions of male contemporaries and honestly ask: was it good music? And at the same time, let's look for what their biographies have in common.