Felix Salzer
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1904 – 1986
Who was Felix Salzer?
Felix Salzer was an Austrian-American music theorist, musicologist and pedagogue. He was one of the principal followers of Heinrich Schenker, and did much to refine and explain Schenkerian analysis after Schenker's death.
He was born in Vienna to Max Salzer and Helene Wittgenstein. He studied musicology with Guido Adler at the University of Vienna, finishing his Ph.D. in 1926 with a dissertation on sonata form in the works of Franz Schubert. At the same time he studied music theory and analysis with Heinrich Schenker and Hans Weisse. In 1939 Salzer emigrated to the United States, and became a citizen in 1945. While in the US he taught at several schools, including the Mannes College of Music, and Queens College of the City University of New York.
His contributions to Schenkerian theory were twofold: first, he brought Schenker's ideas to the attention of American music theorists and musicologists, and second, he applied the analytical technique to music outside of the common-practice era music in which Schenker had exclusively worked, particularly to the music of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and to some music of the 20th century. Later theorists applied Schenkerian techniques to popular music as well.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1904
Vienna - Spouses
- Hedwig Lemberger
( - 1986/08/12)
- Hedwig Lemberger
- Education
- University of Vienna
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Aug 12, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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