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Leicht “Off Topic”, doch betrifft auch die Verbindung “Schillinger – Jazz”. Folgendes fand ich noch ergänzend zu Schillinger. Dies sind die ersten einleitenden Sätze eines Essays:
WARREN BRODSKY
Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943): Music Science Promethean
“Joseph Schillinger is a cult figure among music theorists. While he composed over thirty pieces between 1917 and 1941, including the first known work for an electronic instrument and orchestra in 1929, he is best known as the teacher of George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Vernon Duke, Oscar Levant, Charles Previn, and Carmine Coppola.
However, more than anything else Schillinger was a music scientist receptive to new technologies and experimentation related to the arts. He helped solve the problem of artistically coordinating soundtrack with film track, patented inventions that foreshadowed the rhythm box and color organ, and codeveloped with Leon Theremin the first electronic synthesizer (manufactured by RCA in the early 1930s). It is claimed that his treatise describing the mathematical basis of art was heralded by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell.
Schillinger systematically applied his theories to music (composition and orchestration), art (painting and model-making), design (architecture, graphics, textiles, and fashion), dance (movement and choreography), photography, and cinematography; he projected to consolidate these independent disciplines in one all-encompassing „Institute of the United Arts.“ The majority of his system was eventually published posthumously in four volumes consisting of over 3,000 pages of texts.”
Ein sehr vielseitiger Musik Wissenschaftler und Visionär.
Maßgeblichen Einfluss hatte Schilling auf Gershwin, der von 1932 – 1936 sein Schüler war. Besonders in seinem Werk “Porgy & Bess” kann man angeblich viel von Schillinger herauslesen.
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