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Hans Keller
British musician and musicologist
- From
- Wien, Austria
- Active
- 1919–1985
- Releases
- 0
About
Hans (Heinrich) Keller (11 March 1919 – 6 November 1985) 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.
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- MusicBrainz
- 11d627d7-edb6-4cf2-824f-ce81a64ca8a4
- ISNI
- 0000000121480507
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 6 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.