Anne C. Shreffler
{{Short description|American musicologist (born 1957)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|2|17}}
| birth_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
| occupation = Musicologist
| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
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| thesis_title = Webern's Trakl settings
| thesis_year = 1989
| doctoral_advisor = Reinhold Brinkmann
| discipline = Musicology
| sub_discipline = 20th-century avant-garde music
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Anne Chatoney Shreffler (born February 17, 1957) is an American musicologist who specializes in 20th-century avant-garde music. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Webern and the Lyric Impulse (1994) and Elliot Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents (2008), as well as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music at Harvard University.
Biography
Anne Chatoney Shreffler was born on February 17, 1957, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and she graduated from Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 1975.{{Cite web |last=Shreffler |first=Anne C. |title=Curriculum Vitae of Anne C. Shreffler |url=https://harvard.academia.edu/AnneCShreffler/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Academia.edu}} She originally studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she obtained her Bachelor of Music (1979) degree in flute, before switching to an academic path and obtaining her Master of Music (1981) degree in music theory.
In 1989, Shreffler obtained her PhD from Harvard University; her doctoral dissertation Webern's Trakl settings{{cite dissertation|year=1989|title=Webern's Trakl settings
|first=Anne Chatoney|last=Shreffler|publisher=Harvard University|degree=PhD|OCLC=23993523}} was supervised by Reinhold Brinkmann.{{Cite book |last=Shreffler |first=Anne Chatoney |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Webern_and_the_Lyric_Impulse/QPYYAQAAIAAJ |title=Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl |date=1994 |pages=viii}} The same year, she began working at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of music. In 1994, she left for the {{ill|Musicological Seminar of the University of Basel|de|Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Basel|lt=Musicological Institute}} of the University of Basel, where she subsequently became associate professor of music and in 1997 was promoted to full professor. In 2003, she returned to Harvard and became the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music there.
Shreffler specializes in 20th-century avant-garde music.{{Cite web |title=Anne Shreffler |url=https://german.fas.harvard.edu/people/anne-shreffler |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=german.fas.harvard.edu}} In addition to writing her dissertation on Anton Webern, she also wrote a book on him, Webern and the Lyric Impulse (1994), and she won the 1995 Alfred Einstein Award on an article about his use of the twelve-tone technique. In 2007,{{Cite web |title=Anne C. Shreffler |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/anne-c-shreffler/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of new music, avant-garde, and politics in the early Cold War".{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sovWAAAAMAAJ |title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=2008 |pages=135}} In 2008, she was co-author of Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents, which uses primary sources like letters and documents to explore the life and career Elliott Carter.{{Cite web |title=Elliott Carter |url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843834045/elliott-carter/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Boydell and Brewer}} In 2009, she was co-editor of a special issue of Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft themed after violinist Rudolf Kolisch. In 2014, she was one of the four co-editors of Crosscurrents: American and European Music Interaction, 1900–2000, a volume about the historical relationship between European and North American music.{{Cite web |title=Crosscurrents |url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843839002/crosscurrents/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Boydell and Brewer}}
Bibliography
- Webern and the Lyric Impulse (1994){{Cite journal |last=Alpern |first=Wayne |title=Review Article, "Will the Real Anton Webern Please Stand Up?" |url=https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.98.4.2/mto.98.4.2.alpern_frames.html |volume=4 |issue=2 |work=Music Theory Online}}{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Julie |date=1998 |title=Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl; Webern Studies |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/855295 |journal=Music & Letters |volume=79 |issue=1 |pages=144–150 |issn=0027-4224 |JSTOR=855295}}{{Cite journal |last=Graubart |first=Michael |date=1995 |title=Webern and the Lyric Impulse, Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/944619 |journal=Tempo |issue=194 |pages=44–48 |issn=0040-2982 |JSTOR=944619}}{{Cite journal |last=Griffiths |first=Dai |date=1997 |title=Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/854118 |journal=Music Analysis |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=144–154 |doi=10.2307/854118 |issn=0262-5245 |JSTOR=854118|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=Catherine |date=1996 |title=Webern and the Lyric Impulse: Songs and Fragments on Poems of Georg Trakl |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/898401 |journal=Notes |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=1180–1181 |doi=10.2307/898401 |issn=0027-4380 |JSTOR=898401|url-access=subscription }}
- (with Felix Meyer) Elliot Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents (2008){{Cite journal |last=Lister |first=Rodney |date=2009 |title=Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40496113 |journal=Tempo |volume=63 |issue=249 |pages=77–81 |issn=0040-2982 |JSTOR=40496113}}{{Cite journal |last=Rahkonen |first=Carl |date=2010 |title=Elliott Carter: A Centennial Celebration (Festschrift Series, no. 23); Elliot Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40856225 |journal=Notes |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=750–752 |issn=0027-4380 |JSTOR=40856225}}{{Cite journal |last=Whittall |first=Arnold |date=2009 |title=Elliott Carter: A Centennial Celebration; Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40539086 |journal=Music & Letters |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=725–727 |issn=0027-4224 |JSTOR=40539086}}
- (ed. with Felix Meyer, Carol J. Oja, Wolfgang Rathert) Crosscurrents: American and European Music Interaction, 1900–2000 (2014){{Cite journal |last=Boyd-Bennett |first=Harriet |date=2014 |title=Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/43932673 |journal=Tempo |volume=68 |issue=270 |pages=100–102 |issn=0040-2982 |JSTOR=43932673}}{{Cite journal |last=Pile |first=Joy |date=2016 |title=Crosscurrents: American and European Music Interaction, 1900–2000 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26354484 |journal=Fontes Artis Musicae |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=148–149 |issn=0015-6191 |JSTOR=26354484}}{{Cite journal |last=Whittall |first=Arnold |date=2014 |title=Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900–2000 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24549508 |journal=Music & Letters |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=469–471 |issn=0027-4224 |JSTOR=24549508}}
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