Aaron Copland School of Music
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The Aaron Copland School of Music is one of the oldest departments at
Queens College
, founded when the College opened in 1937.
The department's curriculum was originally established by Edwin Stringham, and a later emphasis on the analytical system of Heinrich Schenker was initiated by Saul Novack.
Some of the students who enrolled in early classes of the college later became faculty members of the department. This included
better source needed]) Later faculty included Felix Salzer, a refugee from Austria who was a student of the theorist Heinrich Schenker and became the leading exponent of his ideas to generations of American students and scholars; and the composers Hugo Weisgall and George Perle
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