Karol Berger#
| Membership Number: | 5072 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://music.stanford.edu/people/karol-berger |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1996 Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at the Department of Music, Stanford University
- 1982 - 1996 Professor in Musicology, Stanford University
- 1975 - 1982 Assistant Professor, Boston University
Fields of Scholarship
- Renaissance music
- Theory of art (with respect to musicology)
- Theory of music
- Hermeneutics of music
- Austro-German music from Bach to Mahler
- History of musical aesthetics
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Kinkeldey Award American Musicological Society (book: Musica ficta)
- 1995 Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award for outstanding creative achievement
- 2008 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America (book: Bach's circle, Mozart's arrow)
- 2009 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- 2011 Glarean Preis Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft, Bern
- 2013 Honorary member American Musicological Society
- 2014 Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Bonn 2014
- Ordinary member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow)
- 2018 Kinkeldey Award American Musicological Society (book: Beyond Reason)
