Marian Wilson Kimber
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. 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. 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.
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