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Although not a theorist, Schopenhauer was a pivotal figure in the history of music theory. He articulated an original view of music that at once drew on and departed from the main theoretical traditions of his time, setting the foundation on which Heinrich Schenker later built his influential theory of music .
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Cubero, D. (2017). Schopenhauer, Schenker, and the Will of Music . In: Shapshay, S. (eds) The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6_11
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