Ensemble Tityre

women's music

Very few of them are well-known, perhaps Fanny Hensel or Ethel Smyth. But do you know, for example, Mel Bonis, Madeleine Dring or Marguerite-Sarah Roesgen-Champion? The ensemble Tityre traced these and many other lesser-known composers and discovered unknown works and extraordinary life stories.

Actress Heidrun Fiedler takes on the roles of the composers and brings their stories to life: there is Cécile Chaminade, who, without knowing what she was doing, wrote sacred compositions at the age of eight in the lap of a seafaring family and is unaware of her later worldwide fame.

Then there is Mel Bonis, who left behind an astonishingly extensive body of work despite the responsibility of raising eight children.

Or Cecilia McDowall, a vivacious English composer who composes from one award ceremony to the next.

The stories touch and sensitize the perception of the composers' works in a sensual way: one listens to them attentively, curiously, and eagerly. The lives and talents of the artists take on a face. From the unknown names arise imaginable figures, transforming the once dismissively and unspecifically termed "women's music" into distinct personalities with characteristic works that are memorable and remarkable.