Karol Berger

Karol Berger (born 1947) is a Polish-American musicologist.

Biography

Berger obtained his PhD from Yale University in 1975[1] and taught at Boston University from 1975 to 1982.[2] He is currently a retired member of the Department of Music at Stanford University, where he holds the Osgood Hooker Professorship in Fine Arts.[1] He is the recipient of awards from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (1995) and the Swiss Musicological Society (the 2011 Glarean Award),[3] and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (the 2014 Humboldt Research Award). He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cracow), and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.

Berger’s work has focused on the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance, aesthetic theory, and Austro-German music from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

He is married to the musicologist Anna Maria Busse Berger.

Selected publications

• Berger, Karol (1981). "The Hand and the Art of Memory". Musica Disciplina. 35: 87–120. JSTOR 20532236.
• Musica Ficta (Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• A Theory of Art (Oxford University Press, 2000; Polish trans. 2008).
• Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity (University of California Press, 2007).
• Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017).

Awards

• Recipient of the 1988 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society.[4]
• Recipient of the 2008 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America.[5]
• Recipient of the 2018 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society.[6]

References

1. "Karol Berger - FSI Stanford". Fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
2. "BU Musicology & Ethnomusicology - Former Faculty". Boston University. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
3. klassik.com. "klassik.com : Glarean-Preis für Karol Berger". Magazin.klassik.com. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
4. "AMS—Otto Kinkeldey Award Winners". Ams-net.org. 2011-05-25. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
5. "Awards". Mozartsocietyofamerica.org. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
6. "Awards". Retrieved 2020-05-01.

Further reading

• Herlinger, Jan (1989). "Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto da Padova to Gioseffo Zarlino . Karol Berger" (PDF). Journal of the American Musicological Society. 42 (3): 640–7. doi:10.1525/jams.1989.42.3.03a00070. JSTOR 831508.
• Eldridge, Richard (2001). "A Theory of Art, by Karol Berger . New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Xiv, 287 pp". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 54 (1): 191–7. doi:10.1525/jams.2001.54.1.191.