Author: Ian Bent

Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935) was a composer, pianist, music theorist, and critic, chiefly remembered for the system of musical analysis known as Schenkerian analysis. He is the author of Dover”s Five Graphic Music Analyses. William Drabkin is Professor of Music at the United Kingdom”s University of Southampton. Ian Bent, the lead translator, is Professor Emeritus of Music at Columbia University and Honorary Professor in the History of Music Theory at the University of Cambridge.