!!!Schenker, Heinrich

Schenker, Heinrich, b. Višnewčik, Ukraine (then 
Wisniowczyk), June 19, 1868, d. Vienna, Jan. 13, 1935, music 
theorist, composer and pianist in Vienna. Studied law at the 
University of Vienna 1884-1888 and piano at the Conservatory of the 
Gesellschaft der  Musikfreunde in Wien 1887-1890, one of his teachers 
being A.  Bruckner. In his theory of structural hierarchies 
("Schichtenlehre") he reduced all composition to a fundamental 
structure ("Ursatz" and "Urlinie"). Today this method of analysis is 
especially popular in the USA; the Vienna University of Music and 
Performing Arts offers a S. course.

!Works
Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien, 3 parts, 
1906-1934; Der Tonwille, 10 parts, 1921-1924; Das Meisterwerk in 
der Musik, 3 vols., 1925-1930.

!Literature
O. Jonas, Vom Wesen des musikal. Kunstwerkes, 1934; L. 
Laskowski, H. S., 1978; M. Eybl, Ideologie und Methode. Zum 
ideengeschichtlichen Kontext von S. Musiktheorie, 1995; C. Schachter, 
Unfoldings. Essays in Schenkerian theory and analysis, 1999; OeBL.


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