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Okay, because that is the way I roll, if composing music drains the life force (is this to do with menstruation?) does this also apply to MEN and does this mean they should not waste their Precious Bodily Fluids? (Sorry have read too much about the Dangers of Self-Abuse and Spermatorrhoea in general.)

This sounds fascinating. Though on women being composers in C19th, some while ago I heard a symphony by Louise Farrenc:

[T]he only female professor of music to be hired in the nineteenth century at the famous Paris Conservatory. She was a great pianist who was also a composer, mainly of symphonies and chamber pieces. In her day she was greatly admired and her fame is beginning to resurface in the twenty-first century. She was also the coeditor of a book on early music called Treasures of Pianists . She was a great admirer of early music, and its influence can be heard in her own musical compositions.