page_title: Susi Jeans
section_title: Personal life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Susi Jeans / Personal life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapel Lane, Westhumble Rural lane leading from the hamlet centre to the ruined chapel.
context_page_description: Susi Jeans born Suzanne Hock, after 1935 also known by virtue of her husband's knighthood as Lady Jeans, was an Austrian-born professional organist, teacher and musicologist.
context_section_description: Born in Vienna, she was the oldest child of Oscar and (J)ekaterina Hock. She trained as a ballet dancer by the modernist teacher Gertrud Bodenwieser but growing rather rapidly, switched to the piano. 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, 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 Jeans 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. 
  Lady Jeans continued to live at the house until she died in 1993.
caption: The hillside hamlet of Westhumble became an influential UK keyboard instrument teaching centre at her large, now demolished house, Cleveland Lodge
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