Anne C. Shreffler

Anne Chatoney Shreffler She originally studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in flute, before switching to an academic path and obtaining her Master of Music (1981) degree in music theory. was supervised by Reinhold Brinkmann. The same year, she began working at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of music. In addition to writing her dissertation on Anton Webern, she also wrote a book on him, Webern and the Lyric Impulse (1994), and she won the 1995 Alfred Einstein Award on an article about his use of the twelve-tone technique. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of new music, avant-garde, and politics in the early Cold War". In 2008, she was co-author of Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents, which uses primary sources like letters and documents to explore the life and career Elliott Carter. In 2009, she was co-editor of a special issue of Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft themed after violinist Rudolf Kolisch.