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Susi Jeans born Suzanne Hock (1911–1993), after 1935 also known by virtue of her husband's knighthood as Lady Jeans, was an Austrian-born professional organist, teacher and musicologist. ==Personal life and education== Born in Vienna, she was the oldest child of Oscar and (J)ekaterina Hock.〔''Susi Jeans: a Seventieth Birthday Tribute'' p. 47, Guy Oldham, 1981, London 〕 She trained as a ballet dancer by the modernist teacher Gertrud Bodenwieser but growing rather rapidly, switched to the piano.〔Guy Oldham, Susi Jeans Obituary, ''The Independent'', 14 January 1993.〕 From 1925 to 1931, she studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory, with organ as a second study. This became her first instrument from about 1928,〔Yet to be published (as at 2015) interview with musicologist and harpsichordist, Jon Baxendale〕 when she began studies with the composer Franz Schmidt and the organist Franz Schütz. In 1931, she was heard by the organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor. After criticising her pedal technique, which he thought not legato enough, Widor invited her to become a student. She accepted his offer but did not report on his lessons' effects other than to say that he was a very old man at the time.〔 During her 1934-35 tour she met the astronomer and mathematician Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM just over 32 years her senior, whom she married, in Vienna, in September 1935. They lived together in a large house (replaced at the end of the century by Cleveland Court) 'Cleveland Lodge' next to Box Hill and Westhumble railway station in Westhumble, Surrey having three children before his death in 1946.〔GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1946 5g 607 SURREY SE – James H. Jeans, aged 69〕 Lady Jeans continued to live at the house until she died in 1993.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susi Jeans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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