Sophie Drinker

Sophie Drinker, a writer, historian, and amateur musicologist, studied the history of women in music. Her extensive research resulted in the 1948 publication Music and Women: The Story of Women in Their Relation to Music, the first book of its kind. Drinker and her husband hosted a salon in their Philadelphia home attended by hundreds of amateur musicians. She wrote numerous other publications, including Brahms and His Women’s Choruses (1952), magazine articles, and an unpublished memoir.