Weisse, Hans, 1892-1940

Subtitle: "Composer was on the Faculty at Mannes School of Music"

Dr. Hans Weisse, composer and teacher of music, died yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hospital after a brief illness at the age of 49. He was known here and abroad for his musicological research.

At the invitation of the Mannes School of Music in this city, Dr. Weisse came to this country for the first time in 1931 and had been head of the composition department of the school since then.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Herda Weisse, and two children, Monica and Suzanna.

Name: Dr. Hans Weisse
Gender: männlich (Male)
Ethnicity/Nationality: Österreich (Austrian)
Marital status: verheiratet (Married)
Departure Age: 39
Birth Date: abt 1892
Residence Place: Wien
Departure Date: 17 Sep 1931
Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany)
Destination: New York City
Arrival Place: Southampton; Cherbourg; New York
Occupation: Tonkünstler
Ship Name: Albert Ballin
Shipping Clerk: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft)
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft)
Ship Type: Dampfschiff
Ship Flag: Deutschland
Accommodation: 1. Klasse
Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 394
Household Members:
Name Age
Hans Weisse 39

Name: Hans Weisse
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1892
Birth Place: Austria
Arrival year: 1932
Naturalization Record Type: Petition for Naturalization
Event Date: 7 Feb 1938
Event Place: New York, USA
Court: Southern District, New York
Spouse's Name: Hertha Weisse
Children: Susanna, Monika

Name: Hans Weisse
Gender: Male
Declaration Age: 40
Record Type: Declaration
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1892
Birth Place: Vienna, Austria
Arrival Date: 28 Sep 1932
Arrival Place: New York, New York, USA
Declaration Date: 27 Dec 1932
Declaration Place: New York
Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Spouse: Hertha
Declaration Number: 337722
Box Number: 203

It is generally recognized that Hans Weisse was the first major exporter of Schenker's theories to
America. He set sail from northern Germany in September 1931, not quite forty years of age, and soon
after arriving in his new homeland he was expounding his teacher's beliefs in lectures and courses on
composition, analysis, and performance at the David Mannes Music School. But he did not live to see
the full prospering of Schenkerian theory in the promised land, and he failed to realize a long-cherished
ambition to produce a textbook based on his teacher's advanced ideas. Weisse died in 1940, at the age of
48, and it was left to his former Vienna pupils Oswald Jonas and Felix Salzer to cement the foundations
of the new theory in the United States...