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Stated second edition, two-volume hardcover set. Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sappho cried out on behalf of all women in the Arts: "Someone, I tell you, will remember us. We are oppressed by fears of oblivion." That someone has been Aaron I. Cohen. He has rescued these thousands of women composers from that oblivion, most of whom would otherwise still be in utter obscurity, kept there by the unrelenting prejudice that exists in large measure even today. The International Encyclopedia of Women Composers was a labor of love. Cohen is the first and only person whose international curiosity and love of music led, without fanfare or publicity of any kind, to a crusade around the world to find all the women composers, living or dead, formerly known or unknown. He succeeded in locating some 6000 in over 70 countries. He amassed a collection of 7500 records, which included the world's largest collection of the recorded work of women composers. His research too eight years to produce the first edition and four more years to produce the second. The second edition has several unique features - making it even more valuable for researchers, performers, libraries and the media. Despite his not being allowed to enter countries "behind the iron curtain," Mr. Cohen located 643 women composers there, a listing which is the only one, even in the countries concerned. Another important piece of research was the discovery of the sequence of over nine centuries of Arabian women songstress-composers - all before the writing of music. 2 volumes (1151 pages, [48] pages of plates) : portraits