Method acting aspects), and Sanford Meisner (the behavioral aspects). The approach was first developed when they worked together at the Group Theatre in New York. All three subsequently claimed to be the rightful heirs of Stanislavski's approach. "The Method" is an elaboration of the "system" of acting developed by the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski. In the first three decades of the 20th century, Stanislavski organized his training, preparation, and rehearsal techniques into a coherent, systematic methodology. The "system" brought together and built on: (1) the director-centred, unified aesthetic and disciplined, ensemble approach of the Meiningen company; (2) the actor-centred realism of
Max Deutsch Fellow and taught at UNESCO, and taught at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) from 1970 to 1971, and finally, from 1972 to the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He founded in Paris the theater "" ("The Jewish Mirror"), where many works of composers such as Schönberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg were first performed. Konstantin Stanislavsky commissioned a work which was to become the opera ' (Chess). His "film symphony" ' (The Treasure) came from a commission from German film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst to provide an original musical score for his 1923 film. In structure, "" was crafted in