Gesine Schröder

Born in Wilster, Holstein,[1] Schröder took cello and piano lessons at the Hamburg Conservatory.[1] She studied from 1976 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, including music pedagogy, cello, music theory, ear training, and improvisation with Christian Möllers and Hartmut Fladt, among others. At the same time, she studied German and musicology at the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. She earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation about Stravinsky's instrumental writing around 1920, which was awarded a Joachim-Tiburtius-Anerkennungspreis.[1]

Schröder was a lecturer at the Hochschule der Künste from 1985 to 1991 and at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin from 1991 to 1992.[1] She has taught at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1992,[2] and in the Department of Composition and Electroacoustics (ELAK) of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien in Vienna since 2012[1]

As a guest, Schröder lectured in Paris in 2002, Oslo in 2007, Poznań in 2008 and 2014, Wrocław in 2010, and at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago in 2012. She lectured in China in Beijing in 2009, 2014 and 2016, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music since 2017, and the University of Guangzhou in 2017.[1]

• Cadenza und Concerto: Studien zu Igor Strawinskijs Instrumentalismus um 1920. Studio, Köln 1996.[1]

As editor

• With Werner Grünzweig, Martin Supper: Schnebel 60. Wolke, Hofheim 1990.[3]
• Tempus musicæ – tempus mundi: Untersuchungen zu Seth Calvisius. Olms, Hildesheim 2008.[4]
• Rhythmik und Metrik (= Grundlagen der Musik. vol. 6). Laaber, Laaber 2016.[4]
• Johann Nepomuk David. Linien und Unterbrüche (= Schriften – Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. vol. 11). Olms, Hildesheim 2016
• Wanderwege. Musiktheorien und Kompositionslehren in und aus China. ZAEB Sonderedition 2017. Bericht über drei Symposien zu dem Projekt "The Cultural Transfer of Central European Music Theory to China". In: Zeitschrift ästhetische Bildung. 9/2017

• Literature by and about Gesine Schröder in the German National Library catalogue
• List of publications by Gesine Schröder at musikbibliographie.de
• Zeitgestalten – Zeit gestalten. Festschrift für Gesine Schröder, ed. by Martina Sichardt, Christoph Hust, Constanze Rora. Hildesheim: Olms 2019. ISBN 978-3-487-15779-5, partly online at Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden