I'm listening to the 1200 years of women composers playlist on Spotify (it's 78 hours long with lots of really great music, give it a shot). I think my favorite composers are Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884) and Amy Beach (1867-1944). But anyway, as I'm listening to Smith's Symphony in C Minor, I notice several fragments of phrases that sound a lot like the Hobbit themes from The Lord of the Rings. Not an entire melodic line, but a few bars of a phrase that then weave into something different, and then a few minutes later there's another one. Howard Shore obviously knows Smith's work, even if I've never heard of her before. (Why, I don't know, because her work is delightful.)
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