Mariana Martines: the infuriating reason you’ve never heard of this brilliant 18th-century composer

By Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, Director of Performance, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Imagine if the only musical artists from the 1980s you had access to were Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson. Others, such as David Bowie, Whitney Houston or George Michael are not available because, we’re told, these artists fail to exhibit the same type of creativity as the other three “geniuses”.

It’s clearly madness, yet this in a nutshell is the gatekeeping situation that exists in classical music today.

Zoom back to the 1780s and the musical landscape was astonishingly diverse,…

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