When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realized that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research in archives, libraries, and publishing houses quickly brought to light a variety of remarkable piano pieces that have been buried in history and rarely performed.
Direction
Steckeweh's personal mission drives every frame — this is advocacy as cinema.
Production
Archival footage and modern performances woven into detective-story structure.
Director
Kyra Steckeweh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'canon' of Western classical music was actively constructed by 19th-century publishers and critics — almost exclusively men who decided whose manuscripts deserved ink and paper.
Many works Steckeweh uncovers were published but never performed; publication without performance is historical silencing by another name.
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