Marian Wilson Kimber | |
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| Born | Marian Wilson |
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| Alma mater | Florida State University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Felix Mendelssohn's Works for Solo Piano and Orchestra: Sources and Composition (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas Seaton |
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| Discipline | Musicologist |
| Institutions | University of Iowa |
| Main interests | 19th century music |
Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa.
Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos,Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993. [1] Her work covers topics of gender,biography,performance,and bibliography in the nineteenth century. Specifically,she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,Jane Austen,spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment,and female performance genres. [2] Wilson Kimber's recent book The Elocutionists:Women,Music,and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press,2017),was a recipient of grants from both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. [3]
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