Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied animportant place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerges from theEnlightenment limits their access to the conservatory and to the quarry. Marie-Catherine Girodexplores this key moment, and reveals to us the talent of the resistance fighters of the classical andromantic periods, and of the first modernism, those whose history has retained the name, such asFanny Mendelssohn or Clara Schumann, or of whom she is rediscovering it today.