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Emily E. Hogstad

IMG_0159 reduceEmily E. Hogstad is the author of the blog Song of the Lark. She has appeared on or in MinnPost, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, WQXR, Performance Today, and The New York Times to offer thoughts on topics as diverse as the Minnesota Orchestra’s historic 2015 trip to Cuba, what it means to be a music nerd, and social media activism in the orchestra world. Her great passion is researching the history of women in music, especially the great forgotten female violinists of the past. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a violin, a viola, a laptop named after Lili Boulanger, and two rescue cats, Gwendolyn and Genevieve.

Contributed Posts
Jul 15, 2025 Seven Works Dedicated to Brahms
Jul 14, 2025 Best Quotes from Chopin’s Letters: Emotional, Witty, and Heartbreaking
Jul 13, 2025 Three Violinists Who Survived the Nazi Concentration Camps
Jul 12, 2025 What Was It Like Being Liszt’s Student?
Jul 10, 2025 What Happened to Stravinsky’s Children?
Jul 9, 2025 Ten Shortest Composer Marriages in Classical Music
Jul 7, 2025 Five Must-See Klaus Mäkelä Performances: His Most Popular YouTube Videos
Jul 6, 2025 How Clara Schumann’s Father Taught Her Piano
Jul 5, 2025 Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss II: Behind Their Unlikely Friendship
Jul 2, 2025 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Three Fascinating Wives