Mannes Music School. Classical music conservatory in New York City, founded by David Mannes and Clara Damrosch in 1916 as the David Mannes Music School, its title changing in 1953 to the Mannes College of Music. The school was originally located on E. 70th Street, then on E. 74th Street, and since 1984 at 150 W. 85th Street. The David Mannes Music School was the primary focal point for the dissemination of Schenker’s theory in the USA (thus in effect in Europe, since World War II), and has played a crucial role in that ever since. (Though it is reported that as early as 1925 George A. Wedge was lecturing at another New York school, the Institute of Musical Art, founded by Mannes’s brother-in-law, Frank Damrosch, on the “Urlinie” (OJ 3/8, p. 2,876).) In 1931, Schenker’s pupil Hans Weisse was appointed—perhaps at the suggestion of Gerald F. Warburg—to the staff of the school to teach composition, theory, and analysis according to Schenker’s theory, and taught there until his death in 1940. In 1932, the school sponsored the publication of Schenker’s Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln. Weisse is known from his letters to Schenker to have taught classes on the article and graphs of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in Schenker’s Das Meisterwerk in der Musik, vol. 3, and a seminar on Der freie Satz, and to have used the Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln as teaching material, and from the School’s prospectuses to have taught such courses as “Creative Hearing,” and “The Theory of Dr. Heinrich Schenker.” Weisse was succeeded by Felix Salzer, who had been his pupil in Vienna, and subsequently Schenker’s (1931–35); the foundational program at Mannes, “Techniques of Music,” integrating musicianship, theory, and performance on the basis of Schenker’s theory, was created by Salzer in 1953. Among those Schenkerian thinkers who have taught at Mannes since Weisse are Adele T. Katz (1936: at the Westchester Branch), Roy Travis (1952–57), Carl Schachter (1956–), Allen Forte (1957–60), William Mitchell (1957–68), Ernst Oster (1970–77), and Edward Laufer (1973–75). In 1989 the College became part of the New School for Social Research, and in 2005 changed its name to the Mannes College the New School for Music. Bibliography: David Mannes, Music is My Faith: An Autobiography by David Mannes (New York: W. W. Norton, [1938]) George Whitney Martin, The Damrosch Dynasty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983) Werner Grünzweig, “Vom ‘Schenkerismus’ zum ‘Dahlhaus-Projekt’: Einflüsse deutschsprachiger Musiker und Musikwissenschaftler in den Vereinigten Staaten—Anfänge und Ausblick,“ Österreichische Musik Zeitschrift 3–4 (1993), 161–70 David Carson Berry, „The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York ‘Schenker School’,” Current Musicology 74 (Fall 2002), 103–51 David Carson Berry, "Hans Weisse and the Dawn of American Schenkerism,“ Journal of Musicology 20/1 (Winter 2003), 104–56 In Martin Eybl & Evelyn Fink-Mennel, eds, Schenker-Traditionen: Eine Wiener Schule der Musiktheorie und ihre internationale Verbreitung (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2006):–
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