User:Schissel
Personal page.
Biographical material
Born September 13,1969 in downstate New York, United States. Indeed my earliest years were spent in New York City. My main interests are in classical music (particularly lesser-known sorts) which influences what I am writing, though I did get my degree such as it was, in Maths. I spent several summers during my undergrad years at math programs, one of them studying topics in Matroids, which have continued to hold some interest for me. I tried that summer, in a REIU — research experience for undergraduates program — to invent and study something which turned out to be a special case of something that already existed, but that's how the cookie crumbles.
I'm also very much into a few other subjects and try to become knowledgeable about them, I may try at least to contribute to some discussions elsewhere.
Friends!
Friends on Wikipedia include User:Schneelocke.
Some contact info
Can be contacted over AIM at ericschiss, or see below.
A bit of additional.
Though it is very far from being the fact of my life, I suppose it also behooves a person to know that I have Asperger's Syndrome, a condition related to autism and manifesting in certain ways I guess I've yet to fully understand (strong fascinations/interests, specific deficiencies in social abilities and relations... it is probably a cause of my mannered writing and speech also. As an aside but to explain some of that — I take seriously the notion that much behavior is overdetermined, so I often hesitate or simply refuse to ascribe the cause and not for the sake of hesitation, either.)
Otherwise put, I neither fully repudiate nor fully blame my Aspie–ness for what goes on in my life. It's related. So are a lot of other things..
Articles written
Began the following pages – some are stubs. Sergei Taneyev, War of the Romantics, Vagn Holmboe, Egon Joseph Wellesz, Viola sonata, Georges Onslow, Alexander Grechaninov, Johann Nepomuk David, Eugen d'Albert, Violin sonata, Moisei Vainberg, Othmar Schoeck, Felix Weingartner (a bit surprised I wasn't beaten to that,) Ferdinand Ries, Anton Reicha, Violoncello concerto, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Allan Pettersson.
Articles edited
Articles significantly edited/added-to : Florent Schmitt, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Cello sonata, List of classical music composers, String quartet, Benjamin Frankel, Edmund Rubbra and Robert Fuchs, a bit to Roger Sessions. (Will add other edits for completeness later when feeling anal‐retentive.)
Temporary pages for personal reference
- User:Schissel/Cello sonata tmplist — actually sort of self‐explanatory...
- User:Schissel/Tmp — Scratch‐list!...