Gertrude Price Wollner (May 15, 1900 – March 1985) was an American writer and composer.[1] Her teachers included Albert Stossel, E. Robert Schmitz, and Emile Jacques Dalcroze. She married Herbert J. Wollner on April 2, 1926 and they had a daughter named Zelda.[2] She published several articles about music education[3] and one book, Improvisation in Music: Ways Toward Capturing Musical Ideas and Developing Them (1963).[4] Wollner taught at Boston University, New England Conservatory of Music, and New York University. She believed that "For any age, a childlike attitude and tenacity of search are essential, and rewarding. Not all “creative” music-making needs to be great music that lasts forever. Through the doing, something genuine occurs which enhances all future music experience for the individual."[5]

Wollner was an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota, the international music fraternity for women.[6]

Selected works

Her compositions include:[7]

Chamber

  • Allegro (oboe and bassoon; 1950)
  • Cello Sonata (1946)
  • Quartet (English horn, violin, viola, and cello)
  • Trio (clarinet, violin, cello; 1950)

Orchestra

  • Exaggerated Impressions (string orchestra and percussion)
  • Suite (string orchestra)

Piano

  • A Dance to My Daughter
  • Impressions of Tour of Old Marblehead

Theatre

  • After Paul Draper (1944)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra
  • Music-Narration-Pantomime-Dance
  • Reed Drum (1940)
  • Scarlet Letter

Vocal

References

  1. ↑ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Scarecrow Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.
  2. ↑ "Join Ancestry®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  3. ↑ Boletín Interamericano de Música (in Spanish). Organization of American States. 1968.
  4. ↑ "ETD Home". etd.ohiolink.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  5. ↑ "Improvisation | Lin Foulk Baird". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  6. ↑ Hendrix, Michael (8 December 2017). "Honorary Member - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity". www.sai-national.org. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  7. ↑ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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