Gesine Catharina Magdalene Schröder (born 1957)[1] is a German musicologist and music theorist.
Born in Wilster, Holstein, 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.
[1] She has taught at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1992,[1] in the Department of Composition and Electroacoustics (ELAK) of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien in Vienna since 2012, and as a part-time lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music from 2017 to 2020.
[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.