Anne Chatoney Shreffler[1] (born February 17, 1957) is an American musicologist who specializes in 20th-century avant-garde music.
A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Webern and the Lyric Impulse (1994) and Elliot Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents (2008), as well as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music at Harvard University.
Anne Chatoney Shreffler was born on February 17, 1957, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,[2] and she graduated from Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 1975.
[4] In 1989, Shreffler obtained her PhD from Harvard University;[4] her doctoral dissertation Webern's Trakl settings[1] was supervised by Reinhold Brinkmann.
[7] In 2009, she was co-editor of a special issue of Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft themed after violinist Rudolf Kolisch.