Why are so few women composers known to the general public and even fewer of their works studied and performed? More than one musicologist told the author that they are not famous enough to be considered! So then, can a woman who studied with Boulanger and Messiaen, who won the coveted Paris Conservatory Prize in Composition, who received the highest awards her country can bestow, and who produced some of the finest teaching musicians on the globe qualify as famous? This book is about one who can and does: Erzsebet Szoenyi, a Hungarian Renaissance woman, who, in spite of a repressive regime''s.