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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Percy Goetschius</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Percy Goetschius</b> (* <a href="30._August" title="30. August">30. August</a> <a href="1853" title="1853">1853</a> in <a href="Paterson_(New_Jersey)" title="Paterson (New Jersey)">Paterson</a>, <a href="New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>; † <a href="29._Oktober" title="29. Oktober">29. Oktober</a> <a href="1943" title="1943">1943</a> in <a href="Manchester_(New_Hampshire)" title="Manchester (New Hampshire)">Manchester</a>, <a href="New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>) war einer der bedeutendsten <a href="Musiktheorie" title="Musiktheorie">Musiktheoretiker</a> und <a href="Kompositionslehre" class="mw-disambig" title="Kompositionslehre">Kompositionslehrer</a> seiner Zeit in den <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">USA</a>.
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<p>Goetschius war Klavierschüler von Robert E. H. Gehring. Er wirkte zwischen 1868 und 1873 als Organist an der <i>Second Presbyterian</i> und der <i>First Presbyterian Church</i> seiner Heimatstadt sowie als Pianist der <i>Mr. Benson’s Paterson Choral Society</i>. 1873 ging er zum Studium der Musiktheorie an das Konservatorium in <a href="Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a>, wo <a href="Immanuel_Fai%C3%9Ft" title="Immanuel Faißt">Immanuel Faißt</a>, <a href="Sigmund_Lebert" title="Sigmund Lebert">Sigmund Lebert</a>, <a href="%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Doppler" title="Árpád Doppler">Árpád Doppler</a> und <a href="Dionys_Pruckner" title="Dionys Pruckner">Dionys Pruckner</a> zu seinen Lehrern zählten.<sup id="cite_ref-gmo_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gmo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dort wurde er 1885 von dem württembergischen König <a href="Karl_I._(W%C3%BCrttemberg)" class="mw-redirect" title="Karl I. (Württemberg)">Karl Friedrich Alexander</a> zum königlich württembergischen Professor ernannt.<sup id="cite_ref-njbd_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-njbd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Ab 1892 unterrichtete er am <a href="New_England_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Conservatory">New England Conservatory</a> in <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> und wurde 1905 Lehrer am neu gegründeten New Yorker <i>Institute of Musical Art</i> unter <a href="Frank_Damrosch" title="Frank Damrosch">Frank Damrosch</a>, der späteren <a href="Juilliard_School" title="Juilliard School">Juilliard School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gmo_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gmo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zu seinen Schülern zählten u. a. <a href="Pauline_Alderman" title="Pauline Alderman">Pauline Alderman</a>, <a href="Samuel_Barlow_(Komponist)" title="Samuel Barlow (Komponist)">Samuel Barlow</a>, <a href="Henry_Cowell" title="Henry Cowell">Henry Cowell</a>, <a href="Samuel_Gardner" title="Samuel Gardner">Samuel Gardner</a>, <a href="Howard_Hanson" title="Howard Hanson">Howard Hanson</a>, <a href="Swan_Hennessy" title="Swan Hennessy">Swan Hennessy</a>, <a href="Eva_Jessye" title="Eva Jessye">Eva Jessye</a>, <a href="Arthur_Loesser" title="Arthur Loesser">Arthur Loesser</a>, <a href="Daniel_Gregory_Mason" title="Daniel Gregory Mason">Daniel Gregory Mason</a>, <a href="Pierre_Maurice" title="Pierre Maurice">Pierre Maurice</a>, <a href="Leo_Ornstein" title="Leo Ornstein">Leo Ornstein</a>, <a href="Wallingford_Riegger" title="Wallingford Riegger">Wallingford Riegger</a>, <a href="Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a>, <a href="Zygmund_Przemyslaw_Rondomanski" title="Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski">Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski</a> und <a href="Arthur_Shepherd" title="Arthur Shepherd">Arthur Shepherd</a>. Er verfasste musiktheoretische Schriften, die bis heute als Standardwerke anerkannt sind.<sup id="cite_ref-njbd_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-njbd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>The Material Used in Musical Composition</i> (New York: G. Schirmer, 1882)</li>
<li><i>The Theory and Practice of Tone-Relations</i> (Boston: New England Conservatory, 1892)</li>
<li><i>Lessons in Musical Form</i> (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1904)</li>
<li><i>The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition</i> (New York: G. Schirmer, 1921)</li>
<li><i>Counterpoint</i> (New York: G. Schirmer, 1930)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-gmo-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-gmo_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-gmo_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Ramona H. Matthews: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11359"><i>Goetschius, Percy.</i></a> In: <i><a href="Grove_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians#Grove_Music_Online" title="Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians">Grove Music Online</a></i> (englisch; Abonnement erforderlich).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-njbd-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-njbd_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-njbd_2-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Caryn Hannan: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">New Jersey Biographical Dictionary</cite>. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Band<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>1</span>. State History Publications, Hamburg, Michigan 2008, ISBN 1-878592-45-9, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>274–276</span> (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=db5BRVgw-TAC&pg=PA274&q=%22goetschius+percy%22#v=onepage">Volltext</a> in der Google-Buchsuche [abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2025]).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Percy+Goetschius&rft.au=Caryn+Hannan&rft.btitle=New+Jersey+Biographical+Dictionary&rft.date=2008&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=1878592459&rft.pages=274-276&rft.place=Hamburg%2C+Michigan&rft.pub=State+History+Publications&rft.volume=1" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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