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Ziehn was born on January 20, 1845 in Erfurt, Germany.
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Ziehn was born on January 20, 1845 in Erfurt, Germany.
As Ziehn was trained to be a schoolteacher, music education played only a small part in his upbringing.
After graduating from a seminary for teachers, young Ziehn received an appointment as teacher at Mühlhausen, where he remained for three years. He then emigrated to America to teach at a German Lutheran school in Chicago and arrived upon the scene of his future labors in November 1868. For two years he taught German, history, higher mathematics, and musical theory. School teaching irked him, and at the end of this period he abandoned the profession of schoolmaster and devoted himself completely to the study and teaching of musical theory. Ziehn had not made an intensive study of music at Erfurt, but he was a born scholar and his increasing preoccupation with music soon became the dominating passion of his life. Whatever musical literature he possessed was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871, save his collection of Beethoven sonatas. With these as a cornerstone, he resumed his researches into the nature of musical grammar and syntax. He became one of the greatest of autodidacts. Gifted with an unusual memory, he had at his fingertips the harmonic devices of all masters. His penetration of harmonic and contrapuntal structure was systematic and daringly logical. By 1886 the manuscript of Ziehn's great treatise on harmony was completed. It was published at Berlin in 1888 as Harmonie und Modulationslehre. It was less a textbook on harmony and modulation than an epoch-making work on harmonic analysis, with hundreds of examples from musical literature. By deriving his classification of chords directly from the practice of the great masters and not from some pseudo-scientific theory of overtones, he placed his harmonic analyses on a solid basis. Such was the logic of his harmonic derivation that he forecast the entire modern impressionistic harmonic technique. In 1907 he published the first volume of a completely recast English version of this work as Manual of Harmony. The second volume was never published, but presumably is preserved in manuscript. In the year 1911 he brought out his treatise on Five-and Six-Point Harmonies, with eight hundred examples and five masterly harmonizations of German chorales. His noteworthy contribution to contrapuntal technique, published as Canonical Studies - A New Technic in Composition (1912) - went to press as he lay on his deathbed. In his earliest publications, System der Uebungen für Clavierspieler and Ein Lehrgang für den ersten Unterricht, published at Hamburg in 1881, he invented finger exercises in contrary motion so as to insure the symmetrical development of both hands. Ziehn was a solitary figure. He held aloof from contemporary opportunism, and labored to solve the problems of his beloved art. An outstanding achievement was his solution of the unfinished final fugue in Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue, a problem that had baffled the best minds for over a century. Ziehn's greatest contribution to the history of music was his monographic demonstration of the spuriousness of the St. Lucas Passion, a choral work traditionally attributed to Bach. He was a constant contributor to the German music journal, Die Allgemeine Musik-zeitung, and startled conservative Germany with his fierce attacks on Hugo Riemann, a scholar whose truly encyclopedic knowledge covered too much ground to be always solid. Most of Ziehn's musicological writings were reprinted in 1927 by the German-American Historical Society of Illinois in a volume of "Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte und Theorie der Musik, " Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois (1927).
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Ziehn had a powerful physique that promised long usefulness, but a cancer of the larynx put a period to that.
Ziehn was married to Emma Trabing, of Chicago, who, with a son, survived him. A daughter died in infancy.
