Gertrude Price Wollner

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[edit]

Her compositions include:^[7]

Chamber[edit]

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

Orchestra[edit]

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

Piano[edit]

A Dance to My Daughter
Impressions of Tour of Old Marblehead

Theatre[edit]

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

Vocal[edit]

"Poem" (text by Rabindranath Tagore; 1937)
"These August Nights" (text by Melville Henry Cane; 1935)
We Catch a Fish (voice and orchestra)

References[edit]

^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Scarecrow Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.
^ "Join Ancestry®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
^ Boletín Interamericano de Música (in Spanish). Organization of American States. 1968.
^ "ETD Home". etd.ohiolink.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
^ "Improvisation | Lin Foulk Baird". www.linfoulk.org. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
^ Hendrix, Michael (8 December 2017). "Honorary Member - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity". www.sai-national.org. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
^ 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)

[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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