Karol Berger (born 1947) is a Polish-Americanmusicologist.

Berger obtained his PhD fromYale University in 1975^[1] and taught atBoston University from 1975 to 1982.^[2] He is currently a retired member of the Department of Music atStanford 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 thePolish 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 theRenaissance,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.

• 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).

• 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]

• 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.

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• 1947 births
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• Yale University alumni
• Boston University faculty

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