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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
Jun 30, 2025 Twelve of the Best Violin Sonatas by Women
Jun 29, 2025 Six Composers With Paralysing Stage Fright – And How They Dealt With It
Jun 28, 2025 A Song to Remember: The 1945 Chopin Film That Made George Sand a Villain
Jun 27, 2025 The Greatest Musician Portraits by John Singer Sargent
Jun 25, 2025 What Happened to Sibelius’s Six Daughters?
Jun 23, 2025 Seven Dedicatees of Chopin’s Music and the Masterpieces They Inspired
Jun 21, 2025 30 Pieces of Classical Music About Birds
Jun 18, 2025 Beethoven’s Eight Most Violent Works
Jun 16, 2025 Ten Greatest Women Pianists of All Time
Jun 15, 2025 Were the Great Composers’ Parents Musical?