Karol Berger, Stanford University

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Professor Stanford, California kberger@stanford.edu Office: (650) 725-2693

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Karol Berger is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at the Department of Music, Stanford University, where teaches since 1982. His books include Musica Ficta (Cambridge University Press 1987; recipient of the 1988 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society), A Theory of Art (...

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Karol Berger is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at the Department of Music, Stanford University, where teaches since 1982. His books include Musica Ficta (Cambridge University Press 1987; recipient of the 1988 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society), A Theory of Art (Oxford University Press 2000), Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow (University of California Press 2007; recipient of the 2008 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America), and Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche (University of California Press 2016). In 2011 he received the Glarean-Preis of the Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft and in 2014 Humboldt Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation. Since 2009, he is a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences; since 2013, a Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society; and since 2014, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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