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Some of the compositions are nearly 200 years old and have never been experienced by an audience.
One of the pieces of music composed by Maris Stella which has been recreated and recorded by the Leeds Conservatoire for the first time
“It has been a remarkably uplifting and inspiring experience seeing a new generation of music-lovers in Leeds working so hard to bring the melodies created by these composers to life once again,” said Kitty Ross, who is curator of social history at Leeds Museums.
Composers whose music has been reimagined and digitised include Virginia Gabriel, who wrote popular ballads in the 19th Century as well as a number of serious compositions and popular composer Charlotte Allington Barnard.
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image captionThe sheet music would have been owned by people living in Leeds
Musicians have recreated a selection of once-popular works by female composers whose pieces have been forgotten over time.
Leeds Conservatoire students used sheet music in the city s Museums and Galleries collection to recreate the work.
The project, marking Women s History Month, aims to bring the music to life for modern audiences.
The completed pieces can be heard in an online exhibition.
Kitty Ross, the galleries curator of social history, said: For many years now, the pieces of music they created to express themselves existed only on paper, forgotten over the passage of time and never recorded or shared with a modern audience.