From the birth of classical m, las women who dared to compose were treated, at best, with condescension: their sex lives were subject to scrutiny and often serv to question their authorship. However, las eight protagonists of este essay—Caccini, Strozzi, Jacquet de la Guerre, Von Martines, Hensel, Schumann, Boulanger, and Maconchy—challenged las social conventions that tried to exclude them from the artistic realm and, despite las adversities, managed to forge a work of their own.