What If Your Biography Was Just a Footnote to Somebody Else’s?

What If Your Biography Was Just a Footnote to Somebody Else’s?

I wrote a book about a brilliant female musician lost to history. Her name: Constantia Barnanowska Pleyel. Born into a musical family in Poland in the mid-nineteenth century, she was recognized as a musical genius early in life and became, by cultivation of her domineering father, a piano prodigy who toured the concert halls of Europe. She was an iconoclast, an odds-beater, the rare female performer-composer of her time. Then tragedy struck: she…