WOLLENBERG, Susan

  Susan Wollenberg was until September 2016 Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, Lecturer at Brasenose College, and Fellow and Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, where she now holds an Emeritus Fellowship.

Her publications include Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2001); Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2004), co-edited with Simon McVeigh; and, co-edited with Therese Ellsworth, The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (2007). She edited the proceedings of the international bicentenary conference ‘Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn Bartholdy) and her Circle’ (Oxford, 2005) for Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2007). Her monograph, Schubert’s Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works, was published in 2011. She co-edited, with Aisling Kenny, Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied (2015).

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.

COMPOSITIONS c. 1995-2010

Mixed choir with organ accompaniment (for the chapel choir and organ scholars of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
- L'Eternel est mon berger (Psalm 23 text in old French for the memorial service for Duncan Stewart, Principal of LMH 1979-1995)
- Shir chadash [A new song] (Psalm texts in English, first line in Hebrew)
- Blessed be the Lord (Evening prayer text in English, first line in Hebrew)

Mixed choir with piano accompaniment (for the choir 'Oxfordshir' and conductor John Dunston)
- 'The Piper of Dundee'

Voice and piano (for Kathryn Whitney, formerly of Lady Margaret Hall)
- The Survivor (song cycle) - Songs I-VI
- *Alles auf der Welt ist Wandel (song cycle) - Songs I-VII

String Quartet and reciter
- Forgotten Voices (suite of pieces - I-V interspersed with testimony of Holocaust survivors)

Piano solo
*für Fanny Hensel (Theme and Variations I-VIII)