Marga Richter's 'Fragments'

Podcast: Composers Datebook · American Public Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Synopsis American composer Marga Richter was born on today’s date in 1926, in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. She began piano lessons by 4, started composing at 12 and had her first work performed when she was in high school in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, where her family had moved so she could study at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis. The family moved again in 1943, this time to New York, so she could attend the Juilliard School. She would recall, “I really didn’t notice that there weren’t any women composers to model myself after until I got to J...