The fate of women singers who are forced to leave their homeland

 In classical music, although there have been a huge number of women composers from the Medieval period to the present day, women composers are significantly underrepresented in the commonly performed classical music repertoire, music history textbooks and music encyclopedias; for example, in the Concise Oxford History of Music, Clara Schumann is one of the only female composers who is mentioned.Women constitute a significant proportion of instrumental soloists in classical music and the percentage of women in orchestras is increasing.