SCHENKERIAN WAVELENGTH – Carl SCHACHTER

Carl Schachter was a pupil of the great Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (the main influence on such musicians as Furtwängler, and the discoverer of the 'Urlinie', the real principle behind the harmonic plan in tonal music). Schachter today is the authority in post-Schenkerian theory and collaborates with musicians like Murray Perahia. His roll in music life is not as well known as its importance for his is a teacher famous among real connoisseurs.

Taking Beethoven's 'moonlight sonata' they discussed the form process, its micro structure and essential turning points. Schachter left the impression of being a highly effective demonstrator of his unmistakebly sharpened ideas, a very open mind for the unusual and a humourous person. Juan José and Mr. Schachter worked in very relaxed and sympathetic mood and could feel their joy in moving on the same wavelength. Prof. Carl Schachter is the author of some fabulous books investigating in Schenkerian analysis and its further developments, a man of decisive artistic ideals.