Professor Susan Wollenberg
Emeritus Professor of Music, Faculty of Music; Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
Academic profile
About
Professor Susan Wollenberg's research and teaching interests have included keyboard music c. 1700-1900, the music of Schubert and musical analysis of works by women composers as well as male composers c. 1750 to 1900.
Monographs published: Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Oxford University Press, 2001); Schubert’s Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works (Ashgate, 2011).
Co-edited books published: with Simon McVeigh, Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2004); with Therese Ellsworth, The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Ashgate, 2007); with Aisling Kenny, Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied (Ashgate, 2015); with Mariateresa Storino, Women Composers in New Perspectives, 1800-1950 (Brepols, 2023); with Robin Darwall-Smith, Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions (Boydell, 2023); and with Matthew Head, The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers.
Other recent and forthcoming publications include chapters contributed to the following co-edited books, published by Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise; Clara Schumann Studies; Clara and Robert Schumann in Context (forthcoming); and Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context.
Her own compositions include the song cycle The Survivor, which was premiered at St John’s, Smith Square in 2005, with Kathryn Whitney (mezzo-soprano). Her song-cycle Alles auf der Welt ist Wandel was premiered in Oxford in 2006 (Part 1) and 2007 (Part 2), with Kathryn Whitney; and her set of variations for piano solo entitled für Fanny Hensel was first performed complete in 2008.
Expertise
- Keyboard music c. 1700-1900
- The music of Schubert
- Women composers
- History of musical life in Oxford
- Musical analysis
Selected publications
- The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers, co-edited with Matthew Head (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
- Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions, co-edited with Robin Darwall-Smith (Boydell, 2023)
- Women Composers in New Perspectives, 1800-1950, co-edited with Mariateresa Storino (Brepols, 2023)
- Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied, co-edited with Aisling Kenny (Ashgate, 2015)
- Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works (Ashgate, 2011)
Media experience
Professor Susan Wollenberg has media experience including contributions to a number or BBC Radio 3 programmes.