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Five Lives in Music:: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present Pashto (Pushto But the heady promise ofRepresenting a historical cross section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding readers through the Thirty Years War in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, Nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal