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| | SchenkerPilot: Salzer, Felix |
 | | Born in Vienna into the Wittgenstein family (his mother, Helene Salzer, was the sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein), Salzer began his studies with Schenker in 1931. |
 | | Salzer also studied musicology with Guido Adler at Vienna University, writing a dissertation “Die Sonatenform bei Franz Schubert,”; and receiving a doctorate in 1926. |
 | | Salzer’s major publications include Sinn und Wesen der abendländischen Mehrstimmigkeit (Vienna: Saturn-Verlag, 1935), Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music (New York: Boni, 1952; reprinted New York: Dover, 1962 and 1982), and Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading, with Carl Schachter (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969; reprinted New York: Columbia University Press, 1989). |
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