Hans Heinrich Keller

Place: Vienna

Born: 1919

Death: 1985

Biography:

Hans Keller was an Austrian-born British musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoanalysis and football. In the late 1950s, he invented the method of 'wordless functional analysis', in which a musical composition is analysed in musical sound alone, without any words being heard or read. He worked full-time for the BBC between 1959 and 1979.