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American writer and composer

Gertrude Price Wollner (May 15, 1900 – March 1985) was an American writer and composer. 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. She published several articles about music education and one book, Improvisation in Music: Ways Toward Capturing Musical Ideas and Developing Them (1963). 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."

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

Selected works

Her compositions include:

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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