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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Walter Braunfels born Frankfurt, December 19, 1882; died Cologne, March 19, 1954 Documents associated with this person: Correspondence Diaries German composer, pianist and teacher. Career Summary After studying law and economics, Braunfels became a piano pupil of Leschetizky in Vienna. In 1925 he was appointed founding director of the Hochschule for Music in Cologne. He was forced to resign this position in 1933 and moved to Switzerland. After World War II he returned to Cologne and his work with the Hochschule. Braunfels and the Schenker circle Braunfels, who was reported to view Schenker's work favorably (e.g. diary December 20, 1927), supported Felix-Eberhard von Cube in his attempt from 1928 to 1931 to establish the teaching of Schenker's theories at the Cologne Hochschule (OJ 5/7a, [18], OJ 9/34, [15], OJ 9/34, [23]), in which Schenker tried in vain to involve Anthony van Hoboken financially (OJ 5/7a, [35], March 28, 1931). No correspondence between Braunfels and Schenker is known to have existed, but Schenker saw items of correspondence between Braunfels and von Cube. A clipping of his article "Empfindung und Form bei Beethoven" (1921), which mentions Schenker's Erläuterungsausgabe , is preserved as OC 2/p. 58. Source New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980) Contributor Ian Bent Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 5/7a, [18] (formerly vC 18) Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated September 6, 1928 Freier Satz will be prepared for publication this year; gives news of former pupils and supporters. OJ 9/34, [14] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated October 4, 1928 Cube acknowledges OJ 5/7a, [18] and [19], and comments; reports on his own recent activities and plans, and on events in the Conservatory, on a forthcoming Schubert festival, and Radio Vienna. He is about to return the Hammer etching. OJ 9/34, [15] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated November 7, 1928 Cube reports his activities in Cologne, especially his work with Heinrich Lemacher, who is a "connoisseur of the Urlinie"; reports on his compositions. Will visit Hupka and Albersheim next time. OJ 9/34, [16] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated March 26, 1929 Cube is listening by radio to music being performed in Vienna. The two caricatures are his fellow composition teachers at Duisburg. Reports on his work at Cologne Conservatory: success with previous lectures, and forthcoming lecture series. OJ 9/34, [23] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated February 10, 1931 Cube acknowledges issue of Der Kunstwart; encloses a letter from Walter Braunfels responding to his plans to establish a Rhineland base for Schenkerian teaching at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik; wonders whether Anthony van Hoboken might be approached for financial assistance on this, and if so how the approach should be made. OJ 15/16, [68] Handwritten letter from Weisse to Schenker, dated February 17, 1931 Weisse thanks Schenker for sending him letters from Felix-Eberhard von Cube und Walter Braunfels, and in return sends Schenker a letter from Wilhelm Furtwängler. He repeats a request for information about the source of a Mozart letter that he has been quoting in a lecture to the Viennese Society for Music Pedagogy. OJ 5/7a, [35] (formerly vC 35) Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cube, dated March 28, 1931 Schenker put Cube's Cologne Highschool proposal to van Hoboken, and now reports on the reaction, discussing the latter's character in so doing. OJ 6/8, [16] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Violin, dated December 29, 1932 Schenker advises Violin to keep up the pressure on Josef Marx regarding a possible position at the Vienna Akademie; he will do the same. He again discourages his friend from approaching Anthony van Hoboken with an appeal for financial assistance. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 21 April 1921 Diary entry by Schenker for 20 December 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 10 July 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 21 October 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 13 November 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 February 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 20 February 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 23 February 1931