Susanne Rode-Breymann (born 29 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist and since 2010 the president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover.

Biography

Rode-Breymann studied early music and music education at the

Hamburg Conservatory The Hamburger Konservatorium is a music conservatory located in the Sülldorf quarter of Hamburg, and it is one of the largest private music schools in Germany. Established as the Klaer'sches Konservatorium für Musik in 1908, it is the oldest scho ...

and musicology, art history and literature at the University of Hamburg and received her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

and Karl Kraus. She was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth (1988 to 1992) and the University of Bonn (1992 to 1996), a research fellow of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel in 1989 researching Anton Webern etc. From 1996 to 1999 she taught as a university lecturer at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

and was from 1999 to 2004 a professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She was appointed professor of historical musicology at the university in Hannover in October 2004, serving as vice president from July 2006 to July 2008. In February 2010 she was elected president of the university. Rode-Breymann is editor and author of numerous publications in the fields of gender studies, music history, early modern, contemporary music and the music of the turn of the century.

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German musicologists German women musicologists Opera scholarship German music educators 1958 births Living people University of Hamburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Bayreuth Academic staff of the University of Bonn German music historians Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover German women academics Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln German women music educators German women historians {{Germany-musicologist-stub