A New Album Re-Creates The Work Of The 1st Known Female Composers In America
![The Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County, Pa., created conditions for its inhabitants to become the first known female composers in America.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/07/23/5655240059_b9af3be286_o1_wide-dc2849bdf59c485828edea192df0682765643ca2.jpg?s=600)
Women rarely received credit for their creative work in Colonial America. But with a new album, one scholar is reviving the works of the women who lived and composed at the Ephrata Cloister.
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