The “fair sex” wasn’t always treated so fairly. Join me this morning on WPRB, as we listen to neglected works by female composers, who labored at a time when the act of composition was still very much a man’s game.

We’ll hear a symphony by the only female professor at the Paris Conservatory during the whole of the 19th century; a sizeable piece for piano and orchestra by a composer generally regarded as a miniaturist; music by a woman who tied with Ernest Bloch in a composition contest but finally gave up her creative aspirations due to general indifference to her work; and an assured “serenade” for orchestra by a suffragette who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

It’s our musical salute to Women’s History Month, this morning from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. A woman’s place is in the concert hall, on Classic Ross Amico.

PORTRAIT: Louis Farrenc was a professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory for 30 years, beginning in 1842. Of course she was only allowed to teach women…