- Viktor Zuckerkandl
Viktor Zuckerkandl (
July 2 ,1896 ,Vienna -April 5 ,1965 ,Locarno ) was anAustria n musicologist. His doctorate was granted in 1927 from Vienna University, and conducted freelance throughout the decade of the 1920s. He was a critic for Berlin newspapers from 1927-1933 and taught theory and appreciation courses in Vienna from 1934-1938. He emigrated to the US in 1940, teaching atWellesley College until 1942, when he took a job as a machinist in the war effort. From 1946-48 he taught theory atThe New School in New York, and joined the faculty at St. John's College, Annapolis in 1948. He remained at St. John's, teaching music as part of theirGreat Books program, until his retirement in 1964.His explanations of
music theory were heavily indebted to the theories of musicologistHeinrich Schenker , and his understandings of musical perception owed much toGestalt psychology , as well as Germanphenomenology . Zuckerkandl believed music was part of the "mystical aspect of human existence", and sought to explain its existence in all cultures as a universal phenomenon. He was not well known until his works were rediscovered by scholars in the 1990s.Works
*"Prinzipien und Methoden der Instrumentation in Mozarts Werken" (diss., U. of Vienna, 1927)
*"Musikalische Gestaltung der grossen Opernpartien: jugendlich-dramatisches Fach" (Berlin, 1932)
*"Die Weltgemeinschaft der Juden" (Zürich, 1938)
* "Sound and Symbol", 1956
* "The Sense of Music", 1959
* "Vom musikalischen Denken" (1964)
* "Man the Musician", 1973References
*Suppan, Wolfgang. "Zuckerkandl, Viktor". "
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians " online.
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