This article is about Heinrich Schenker. For the method of analysis based on his theories, see Schenkerian analysis. Schenker in 1912 by Hermann Clemens Kosel [de] Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was a Galician-born Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis.[1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully