Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker · Philosophy & Social Sciences
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1868, Wiśniowczyki, Galicia (Austria-Hungary; now Ukraine) — 1935, Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria
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Schenker was an Austrian music theorist whose analytical method — reducing tonal works to underlying voice-leading structures (the 'Ursatz') — became one of the most influential approaches to Western musical analysis, and he was profiled among leading twentieth-century thinkers. Born into a Galician Jewish family, he was Jewish and, living in Vienna, witnessed the rise of the antisemitism that would soon engulf Europe.
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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
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