How often do we hear music by Barbara Strozzi or Constanze Geiger in concert halls? Even today, women composers remain on the margins of the classical repertoire. Geiger, once a celebrated musician, was nearly forgotten until the Vienna Philharmonic played her Ferdinandus-Walzer in 2025—its first-ever performance of a woman’s work. This project approaches the lives of women composers as assemblages of letters, diaries, and memoirs—rhizomatic traces that deterritorialize conventional music history. Rather than a linear narrative of struggle and recognition, these writings open onto flows of affect, memory, and desire that exceed the archive, composing new planes of resonance. In bringing these voices into circulation, the project does not simply supplement the canon but reconfigures the field itself, multiplying lines of flight toward more expansive and immanent forms of relation within classical music.
[Read more about the project here]