Larry R. Wolz

Professor of Music History and Voice, Head, Departmentof Music History and Literature
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lwolz@hsutx.edu

The long tradition of musical excellence at HSU, including the distinction of being the first music school in Texas accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, makes HSU a great place for undergraduate students to get a superior music education. The music faculty and the music facilities at HSU are among the finest in the state of Texas, and small classes and friendly teachers mean that you aren’t just a number here. Students who excel in our undergraduate programs can and have gone on to excel in graduate programs in the finest conservatories and music schools in the nation. I am proud to have been one of those HSU music alums, returning almost thirty years ago now to teach and help carry on the great HSU music tradition. Watching students grow and succeed as professional musicians makes teaching here exciting and rewarding.

Dr. Larry Wolz is Professor of Music History and Vocal Pedagogy at HSU, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. Dr. Wolz earned the BM and MM degrees in vocal performance from HSU and went on to complete the MM degree in musicology at Texas Christian University. In 1983, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in musicology from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Wolz is head of the Music History and Literature department in the School of Music and teaches most of the music history courses as well as Vocal Pedagogy. Dr. Wolz has long been a church musician as well and has been organist at First Central Presbyterian Church in Abilene for over twenty years. His organ arrangements have been published by Broadman, Genevox, and Harold Flammer. Articles on a wide variety of subjects have been published in the NATS Bulletin, Journal of Research in Singing, The Opera Journal, The Church Musician, The American Organist, and College Music Symposium. His current research interests lie primarily in the history of music in Texas. Several of his articles appear in The New Handbook of Texas, and he is currently at work on a biography of Frank Valentine van der Stucken (1858-1929), an important Texas-born composer of international stature in the late nineteenth century.