To fill in a gap in musical history!

The miniseries “She composes like a man” is now available for TV distribution.

The miniseries “She composes like a man” tells the story of some of the amazingly strong female composers and their hidden orchestral music, narrated by the charismatic Norwegian conductor Cathrine Winnes. We follow their fights as they take their music out of the domestic chambers and into the public realm. Stakes were extremely high. Some gave up their children. Others divorced their husbands or composed in secret at night. More than one published under their brothers’ names. Today we know them as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Signe Lund, Lili Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade and Clara Schumann. And of course, Ethel Smyth and her toothbrush.


Also available: 70’ concert
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Cathrine Winnes, conductor

With music by Grazyna Bacewicz, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Lili Boulanger, Ethel Smyth, Signe Lund, Kaija Saariaho and Helena Munktell

Duration 4*30'
Production Company Peiling Film & TV for SVT
Executive Producer Ella Petersson
TV Director Anders Lindstad