Was the golden age of the piano also an age of defeat for female composers? They occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, but the bourgeois society that emerged from the Enlightenment limited their access to conservatories and careers.

Marie-Catherine Girod explores this key moment and reveals to us the talent of the resistance fighters of the classical and Romantic periods, as well as early modernism. History has retained some names, such as those of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, but we are rediscovering many others to this day.