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Heinrich Schenker

1868 - 1935

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Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910; 1922), and Free Composition (1935). Born in Wiśniowczyk, Austrian Galicia, he studied law at University of Vienna and music at what is now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where his teachers included Franz Krenn, Ernst Ludwig, Anton Bruckner, and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. Despite his law degree, he focused primarily on a musical career following graduation, finding minimal success as a composer, conductor, and accompanist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Schenker is the 1,065th most popular composer (up from 1,089th in 2019), the 620th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 692nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Ukrainian Composer.

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Among composers, Heinrich Schenker ranks 1,065 out of 1,451. Before him are Igor Krutoy, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, James MacMillan, Alexander Serov, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, and Gustav Ernesaks. After him are Eduard Künneke, Lorenzo Perosi, Nikolai Roslavets, Dave Stewart, Krešimir Baranović, and Lars-Erik Larsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Heinrich Schenker ranks 156. Before him are Panagis Tsaldaris, Mihailo Petrović, Edward S. Curtis, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Nikolaos Trikoupis, and Constance Markievicz. After him are Federico Tinoco Granados, Gustav Mie, Leonardus Nardus, Frederick W. Lanchester, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, and Prosper Poullet. Among people deceased in 1935, Heinrich Schenker ranks 109. Before him are Bernhard Britz, Jules Cambon, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Emil Młynarski, Daniel Salamanca Urey, and Hans Baluschek. After him are Julia Beck, Sylvain Lévi, Gottlieb von Jagow, Childe Hassam, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, and Will Rogers.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Heinrich Schenker ranks 620 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Veksler (1907), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Igor Krutoy (1954), Nathan Altman (1889), David Bergelson (1884), and Alexander Potebnja (1835). After him are Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), Jerzy Różycki (1909), Ida Fink (1921), Ross Martin (1920), Alexander Gerschenkron (1904), and Sofia Yablonska (1907).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Heinrich Schenker ranks 23. Before him are Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Alexander Spendiaryan (1871), Nikolay Diletsky (1630), Alexander Mosolov (1900), Roman Vlad (1919), and Igor Krutoy (1954). After him are Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Yuri Shaporin (1887), Leo Ornstein (1895), Emil Paur (1855), Vasyl Barvinsky (1888), and Yevhen Stankovych (1942).

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