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Introduction If you were to ask someone to name a classical music composer, the result would almost certainly be a man – most likely one of those named below. But first, for the musicologists out there, let me define ‘classical’ in the broad sense of the word, meaning the long tradition of ‘art’ music that includes the familiar names such as Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Stravinsky etc etc as well as contemporary composers of film music such