Love of the Sirens: On Composers, Compulsions, and Creations by Edith Zack - Book Review

Love of the Sirens: On Composers, Compulsions, and Creations by Edith Zack

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If you love history, and specially history about women and their life and accomplishments; then this book Love of the Sirens is for you. This book tells you the history & the lives of 20 different women from the twelfth century to today. These women struggled with having to do things that either their church or their family told them had to do. They pushed themselves no matter how many times they were told no.

This book will make you realize that your life today as a women should never be taken lightly, especially since we are able to do much more then those years ago.

History has made male poets, writers, composers and painters, as well as conductors, philosophers, critics and historians who have documented the history of the world. Women, on the other hand, were something of an adornment. They were considered to be the fairer, weaker, and inferior sex, an object to be written about, painted, and talked about. In the collective consciousness women were associated with salons and morning visits, needlepoint and flower arranging, as well as playing the piano.

Love of the Sirens attempts to answer questions through the stories of Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Florence Price, and fifteen other women composers. Over a period spanning 800 years, from the twelfth century to the present day, all of them created but were absented from the bookshelves of history and their voice was unheard. Each chapter reveals the composer’s life story against the backdrop of the period in which she lived, the home she grew up in, her personal relationships, her loves and disillusionment, and her daily struggle along the road to recognition as an independent professional.

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