Research Catalog

Title

Felix Salzer papers, 1897-1995.

Author

Salzer, Felix.

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Additional Authors

• Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935.
• Wittgenstein, Karl, 1847-1913.
• Wittgenstein, Hermine.
• Weisse, Hans, 1892-1940.

Description

15 linear ft. (57 boxes)

Summary

The Felix Salzer Papers contains the work of Felix Salzer (1904-1986), an Austrian-born music scholar who came to the United States in 1939 and has had a lasting impact on music theory. Salzer's work in the United States was highly influential, primarily in the dissemination of Schenkerian theory and analysis. The present collection encompasses both Salzer's scholarly materials and a portion of the papers of his Viennese mentor, Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935). Broadly speaking, the collection contains music analyses, correspondence, academic notes, significant texts (both published and unpublished), and other items.

Subjects

• Correspondence
• Musicologists
• Wittgenstein family
• Music theorists
• Schenkerian analysis
• Wittgenstein, Karl, 1847-1913
• Salzer, Felix
• Mannes College of Music

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Additional Formats (note)

• lso available on microfilm;

Biography (note)

• Felix Salzer (June 13, 1904 - August 12, 1986) was a Viennese-born, highly influential music theorist in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. Grandson of the industrialist Karl Wittgenstein, he studied piano with Malwine Brée, a pupil to Theodore Leschetizky and his chief assistant, and attended the Theresianum from 1914-1922, where he earned his Matura. He studied composition and theory first under Hans Weisse (from ca. 1920-1931), and then later theory under Heinrich Schenker (from 1931-1935). He studied musicology under Guido Adler and Robert Lach at the University of Vienna from 1922-1926, earning his doctorate with the dissertation Die Sonatenform bei Franz Schubert. He also studied conducting at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien under Oswald Kabasta from 1930-1935. After Schenker died, Salzer kept in touch with his widow, Jeanette, from whom he purchased a portion of Schenker's Nachlass in April 1936.
• Salzer worked at the David Mannes School of Music (after 1953, known as the Mannes College of Music) from 1940-56 (1948-55 as Executive Director) and later from 1962-1981 (as a teacher and in various advisory and administrative roles), and at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also taught at the Ralph Wolfe Conservatory (1940-42) and the 92nd St. YMHA (1943-45). He began as a visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York in 1956-57, but then returned from 1963-71 as associate professor (with a promotion to full professor in 1966). He became professor emeritus in 1971. Salzer's own scholarly interests ranged from the analysis of tonal music and the analysis of variations, to the history of tonality (with a particular focus on the analysis of medieval repertoire) and concert programming/musical criticism.

Language (note)

• In English and German.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 07-1

OCLC

170935546

Author

Salzer, Felix.

Title

Felix Salzer papers, 1897-1995.

Additional Formats

Series II (boxes 51-57) lso available on microfilm; service copy in *ZB-4307.

Biography

Felix Salzer (June 13, 1904 - August 12, 1986) was a Viennese-born, highly influential music theorist in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. Grandson of the industrialist Karl Wittgenstein, he studied piano with Malwine Brée, a pupil to Theodore Leschetizky and his chief assistant, and attended the Theresianum from 1914-1922, where he earned his Matura. He studied composition and theory first under Hans Weisse (from ca. 1920-1931), and then later theory under Heinrich Schenker (from 1931-1935). He studied musicology under Guido Adler and Robert Lach at the University of Vienna from 1922-1926, earning his doctorate with the dissertation Die Sonatenform bei Franz Schubert. He also studied conducting at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien under Oswald Kabasta from 1930-1935. After Schenker died, Salzer kept in touch with his widow, Jeanette, from whom he purchased a portion of Schenker's Nachlass in April 1936.

Salzer worked at the David Mannes School of Music (after 1953, known as the Mannes College of Music) from 1940-56 (1948-55 as Executive Director) and later from 1962-1981 (as a teacher and in various advisory and administrative roles), and at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also taught at the Ralph Wolfe Conservatory (1940-42) and the 92nd St. YMHA (1943-45). He began as a visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York in 1956-57, but then returned from 1963-71 as associate professor (with a promotion to full professor in 1966). He became professor emeritus in 1971. Salzer's own scholarly interests ranged from the analysis of tonal music and the analysis of variations, to the history of tonality (with a particular focus on the analysis of medieval repertoire) and concert programming/musical criticism.

Language

In English and German.

Indexes

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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Finding aid

Occupation

Musicologists.

Music theorists.

Added Author

Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935.

Wittgenstein, Karl, 1847-1913. Correspondence. Selections.

Wittgenstein, Hermine. Familienerinnerungen.

Weisse, Hans, 1892-1940.

Research Call Number

JPB 07-1