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Schenker was born in Wisniowczyki in Galicia in Poland. He moved to Vienna where he studied music under Anton Bruckner and became known as a pianist accompanying lieder singers and playing chamber music. He taught the piano and music theory privately, with Wilhelm FurtwänglerWilhelm Furtwangler ( January 25, 1886 November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and sometime composer. Furtwangler was born in Berlin. His father Adolf was an archaeologist and his mother a painter, and his brother Phillip a mathematician. Most of his ch, Anthony van HobokenAnthony van Hoboken ( 1887 1983) was a Dutch musicologist. He was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and died in Zurich, Switzerland. Hoboken is best known for his J. Haydn, Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (published 1957) a catalogue of the and Felix SalzerFelix Salzer ( June 13, 1904 August 12, 1986) 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. among his pupils.

Schenker's ideas on analysis were developed in the two journals he published, Der Tonwille (1921-24) and Das Meisterwerk in der Musik (1925-30), both of which only included content by Schenker. The fact that his edition of Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 d. March 26, 1827) was a German composer, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of all tim's late piano sonatas also include analyses of the works points up the fact that Schenker regarded his analyses as tools to be used by performers for a deeper understanding of the works they were performing.

In 1932, Schenker published Five Graphic Music Analyses (Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln), analyses of five works using the technique which is now known as Schenkerian analysis. Following Schenker's death, his incomplete theoretical work Free Composition (Der freie Satz, 1935) was published (translated into English by T. H. Kreuger in 1960 as a dissertation at the University of IowaThe University of Iowa is a university in Iowa City, Iowa. The university was founded in 1847 as the State University of Iowa only 59 days after Iowa became a state. In spite of its original name, it is not to be confused with Iowa State University. In 18). Other music theorists, for example Felix Salzer and Carl Schachter , both added to and disseminated Schenker's ideas: by the 1960s Schenkerian analysis had become one of the central analytical methods used by music theorists in Europe and the United States.