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Encyclopedia > Joseph Schillinger

Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (at that time, part of Russia). He was an exceptional student throughout this academic life and graduated from the Classical College in 1914 and the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory of Music. 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Kharkiv Gosprom Building Kharkiv (ukr. ...


Schillinger came to the United States of America in 1928 and received his citizenship in 1936. He remained in America until his untimely death in 1943 at age 47.


In his short life Joseph Schillinger achieved a very great deal in the area of music and composition theory. He was a teacher of music at Columbia Teachers College and also gave private lessons in music composition from his home, during which time he developed the Schillinger System of music. This was later published as the Schillinger System of Musical Composition by Joseph Schillinger, compiled by Lyle Dowling and Arnold Shaw. This work was published posthumously and is still deemed incomplete by his original students. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


One of his students, Lawrence Berk, founded the Schillinger House of Music, later to be named the Berklee College of Music at Boston, MA. Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ...


Schillinger also served as teacher of composition to George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Carmine Coppola and many others. There has been debate surrounding how many teachers were certified by Schillinger himself. The numbers cited range from 7 to 12 certified teachers. Yet, to date, only 7 certified teachers of the Schillinger System have been substantiated. George Gershwin photograph by Edward Steichen in 1927. ... Major Glenn Miller Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904–probably December 15, 1944) started life as Alton Glenn Miller in Clarinda, Iowa. ... Carmine Coppola Carmine Coppola (born June 11, 1910 in New York City, died April 26, 1991 in Northridge, CA) was a composer, editor, musical director, and songwriter. ...


There is a major website on Schillinger at http://www.schillingersystem.com


See also

The Schillinger School of Music is a new resource offering courses in the System. See www.ssm.uk.net To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


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Who Is Joseph Schillinger (1329 words)
Joseph Schillinger was born and raised at the turn of the 20th century in Kharkov, a Ukranian town then part of the Russian empire.
Schillinger wrote the first manual for playing the Space-Controlled Theremin, and in 1929 he wrote the first ever through-composed piece for that instrument, which he titled "First Airphonic Suite, Opus 21, for orchestra and solo Theremin." SoMC includes a short melody from the Suite as a subject for analysis (orchestral accompaniment reduced to piano sketch).
Schillinger was, economically, the model American: for every new dollar he earned, he would spend almost all of it.
Schillinger System at AllExperts (1515 words)
Schillinger was a professor at The New School in New York City and taught such celebrated composers as George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and a host of Holywood and Broadway composers.
Schillinger was a natural teacher and communicated his musical knowledge in the form of a precise written theory, using mathematical expressions to describe art, architecture, design and (most insistently, and with most detail and success) music.
Schillinger accredited a small group of students as qualified teachers of the System and after his death, one of them, Lawrence Berk, founded a music school in Boston to continue the dissemination of the System.
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