Sarah Fritz - hiatus
@sarahfritz.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Former opera singer. she/her
Clara Schumann know-it-all.
https://clara-schumann-channel.com/
Clara Schumann know-it-all.
https://clara-schumann-channel.com/
Pinned
I’m now writing a new biography about Clara Schumann—an accessible book for the general public called MADAME COMPOSER.
It’s gonna take 2yrs but you can get updates here: sarahfritz.substack.com/p/book-deal-...
It’s gonna take 2yrs but you can get updates here: sarahfritz.substack.com/p/book-deal-...
I went WAY more political than normal in this month’s newsletter—thanks to the movies SINNERS & K-POP DEMON HUNTERS🙌🏻🥳 Best movies of the year with mega music plots!!! The classical music industry could take notes.
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When Music Meets Evil
My thoughts on Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, new movies on music that I highly recommend!
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September 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I went WAY more political than normal in this month’s newsletter—thanks to the movies SINNERS & K-POP DEMON HUNTERS🙌🏻🥳 Best movies of the year with mega music plots!!! The classical music industry could take notes.
sarahfritz.substack.com/p/music-movi...
sarahfritz.substack.com/p/music-movi...
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Clara Schumann: Warum willst du and’re fragen w/ Town Quartet. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio.
#cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers
#cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers
September 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Clara Schumann: Warum willst du and’re fragen w/ Town Quartet. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio.
#cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers
#cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers
I’m enjoying my social media hiatus—focusing on writing for a while. I’m still doing the newsletter though, linking Clara Schumann to current events. Timeless problems:
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Clara Schumann, the Revolutionary!
What protest looked like in 1848-49
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May 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’m enjoying my social media hiatus—focusing on writing for a while. I’m still doing the newsletter though, linking Clara Schumann to current events. Timeless problems:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahfri...
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The opening of Clara Schumann's concerto, composed when she was 15 and premiered with Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Can't wait to perform this with the BBC Philharmonic and Nicholas Carter at Malvern Theatres, 9 May! 🎉 malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/bbc-ph...
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The opening of Clara Schumann's concerto, composed when she was 15 and premiered with Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Can't wait to perform this with the BBC Philharmonic and Nicholas Carter at Malvern Theatres, 9 May! 🎉 malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/bbc-ph...
My FAV recording of Clara Schumann’s op. 12 & 13 & other without opus lieder. They give her work all the respect & care her she deserves. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times!
May 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My FAV recording of Clara Schumann’s op. 12 & 13 & other without opus lieder. They give her work all the respect & care her she deserves. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times!
Enjoy an utterly hilarious dunk on Dichterliebe from Olivia Giovetti
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Dirtbag Dichterliebe
Happy May, dirtbags.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Enjoy an utterly hilarious dunk on Dichterliebe from Olivia Giovetti
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I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
Meaningless Sex
Some thoughts on the Supreme Court, The EHRC and other feminist dystopias
feministkilljoys.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
Sometimes my research matches my reality too well — now reading Clara Schumann’s frustration at how few of her “educated liberal” friends supported the revolutions in 1848-49. Touché.
April 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sometimes my research matches my reality too well — now reading Clara Schumann’s frustration at how few of her “educated liberal” friends supported the revolutions in 1848-49. Touché.
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Our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 is the queen of French #Baroque music, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. Each day at 4pm Kate Molleson follows her story from the heart of Paris to the golden setting of #LouisXIV's court. Producer Julien Rosa #harpsichord #classicalmusic bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
April 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 is the queen of French #Baroque music, Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. Each day at 4pm Kate Molleson follows her story from the heart of Paris to the golden setting of #LouisXIV's court. Producer Julien Rosa #harpsichord #classicalmusic bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I’ve made all sorts of FANTASTIC discoveries that I’ve decided not share to till the book comes out so that my research doesn’t end up in the AI machine—🙄😜.
But just fyi— every day I find exciting stuff I’m so impatient to share with y’all!
But just fyi— every day I find exciting stuff I’m so impatient to share with y’all!
April 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ve made all sorts of FANTASTIC discoveries that I’ve decided not share to till the book comes out so that my research doesn’t end up in the AI machine—🙄😜.
But just fyi— every day I find exciting stuff I’m so impatient to share with y’all!
But just fyi— every day I find exciting stuff I’m so impatient to share with y’all!
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@sarahfritz.bsky.social, those Wieck Schumann romances are getting some traction.
April 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@sarahfritz.bsky.social, those Wieck Schumann romances are getting some traction.
It’s that time of year where I procrastinate writing with gardening—for hours—every day. 🪻🌸🌺🌷🌼
April 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s that time of year where I procrastinate writing with gardening—for hours—every day. 🪻🌸🌺🌷🌼
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Trans Rights Are Human Rights. 🏳️⚧️❤️
April 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trans Rights Are Human Rights. 🏳️⚧️❤️
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🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action.
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
April 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action.
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
“Yes, defining women as biological is a disaster for feminism.” @saranahmed.bsky.social
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Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
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April 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Yes, defining women as biological is a disaster for feminism.” @saranahmed.bsky.social
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Today, a brief history of Fanny Hensel's Easter Sonata 🐰🐣🪺💐🎹 and some lore about the origins of Henselpushers.
April 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today, a brief history of Fanny Hensel's Easter Sonata 🐰🐣🪺💐🎹 and some lore about the origins of Henselpushers.
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1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
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It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles
“The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Letitia James, NY AG fighting THE FIGHT against authoritarianism at National Action Network: 🔥🔥🔥
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a made up mind and my mind is made up.”
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“There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a made up mind and my mind is made up.”
youtu.be/w9NVNUo5PAo?...
Letitia James' EPIC Anti-Trump Speech BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE
YouTube video by Reflect Politics
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April 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Letitia James, NY AG fighting THE FIGHT against authoritarianism at National Action Network: 🔥🔥🔥
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a made up mind and my mind is made up.”
youtu.be/w9NVNUo5PAo?...
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a made up mind and my mind is made up.”
youtu.be/w9NVNUo5PAo?...
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My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
I really need cis women to understand that this is only BAD news for us. The govt controlling the definition of sex & gender is in the same basket as controlling our bodies. Being anti-trans will NOT protect us. It will only hurt us!
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I really need cis women to understand that this is only BAD news for us. The govt controlling the definition of sex & gender is in the same basket as controlling our bodies. Being anti-trans will NOT protect us. It will only hurt us!
So just found Bettina von Arnim (philosopher, composer, friend of Beethoven & Goethe) visited the Schumann house in Düsseldorf.🤩😍 To the business that she “hated Clara,” I cry bs!
April 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So just found Bettina von Arnim (philosopher, composer, friend of Beethoven & Goethe) visited the Schumann house in Düsseldorf.🤩😍 To the business that she “hated Clara,” I cry bs!
This Saturday y’all! 🥳
🚨 April 19 is happening — and it’s more than just a protest.
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and finding other creative ways to show up for their communities and push back against this administration.
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and finding other creative ways to show up for their communities and push back against this administration.
April 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This Saturday y’all! 🥳
I’m to the part where I need to study Tannhauser to understand why Clara hated it so much… 😭😩 Save me!
April 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’m to the part where I need to study Tannhauser to understand why Clara hated it so much… 😭😩 Save me!