Avenir Foundation-Research Grants

The Avenir Foundation in Wheat Ridge/Colorado is sponsoring our private foundation on the condition that the annual interest from the donation be used to give international students and scholars grants for travel and accomodations for their research at the Arnold Schönberg Center.
The Arnold Schönberg Center Private Foundation has established Research Grants to encourage scholarly and archival research. Grant recipients will work at the Arnold Schönberg Center on projects which relate directly to the life and works of Arnold Schönberg.

Support for the Research Grants will include:

• Housing at the Schönberg-House in Mödling for a two-week period (scholars may apply for additional twoweek periods based on more extensive projects)
• Public transportation passes within Vienna and Mödling
• Per diem allowance
• Transportation allowance to assist in travel to and from Vienna
• Full use of the Arnold Schönberg Center’s archive and library facilities

Please check our website at www.schoenberg.at to familiarize yourself with the available archival materials and the Center’s facilities.

Please check our web site at www.schoenberg.at to familiarize yourself with the available archival materials and the Center’s facilities.

All written applications for Research Grants should be sent to:
Arnold Schönberg Center Privatstiftung
Dr. Christian Meyer, Director
Schwarzenbergplatz 6
A – 1030 Wien
Tel: +43 1/712 18 88 – 30 (Information: Therese Muxeneder)
Fax: +43 1/712 18 88 – 88
e-mail: meyer@schoenberg.at

Responses to all Grant applications will be no longer than three months after receipt of the application. Applicants should include the following:

– A detailed project description
– Curriculum vitae
– Letter of recommendation from school or university (for students)


Recipients of the Avenir Foundation research grant since 1998:

December 12 – 31, 1998
Elisabeth Sommernes, University of Oslo, Norway
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings«

December 10 – 18, 1999
Marc Kerling, University of Bonn, Germany
»Moses and Aron«

September 19 – 30, 2000
Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Der musikalische Gedanke«

February 19 – March 5, 2001
Annegret Seidel, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings (Kuratierung)«

February 23 – March 8, 2001
Matthias Herrmann, University of Dresden, Germany
»Schönberg and Dresden/Leipzig«

March 21 – April 3, 2001
Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Spätwerk«

March 26 – April 8, 2001
Markus Böggemann, Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg: Suite for String Orchestra«

March 30 – April 17, 2001
Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg as music theorist«

April 26 – May 9, 2001
Richard Kurth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
»Arnold Schönberg: Echoes of the Unrepresentable«
»The Art of Cadence«

May 7 – 22, 2001
Michelle Duncan, Cornell University Ithaka, USA
»Music and Memory«

July 15 – 29, 2001
Marinella Ramazzotti, University of Bologna, Italy
»Pierrot lunaire«, »Moses and Aron«

August 25 – September 7, 2002
Ina Karr, University of Freiburg, Germany
»Arnold Schönberg and the Stage«

October 1, 2002 – February 28, 2003
Áine Heneghan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
»The relationship between principles of the Schönbergian Formenlehre and the early evolution of the twelve-tone method«

March 4 – 16, 2003
Jean-Jacques Dünki, Basel, Switzerland
»Arnold Schönberg’s Piano Music«

April 3 – 16, 2003
Florian Heesch, University of Cologne, Germany
»The influence of August Strindberg on opera in the first half of the 20th century«

July 7 – 26, 2003
Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin, Germany
»Zur Werkgenese der Jakobsleiter«

July 10 – 27, 2003
Stephen Peles, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
»Moderne Psalmen«

July 20 – August 27, 2003
Sokol Shupo, Universität Tirana, Albanien
»Harmonielehre« (Quellenrecherchen und Übersetzung ins Albanische)

March 19 – April 2, 2004
Felix Wörner, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
»Untersuchungen zur frühen Schönberg-Biographik«; »Dodekaphonierezeption«

June 18 – July 16, 2004
Daniel Callahan, New York University, (College of Arts and Science), USA
»Transfigured Text: Richard Dehmel's Weib und Welt and the Music of Arnold Schönberg's Dehmel-Jahr«

July 5 – 30, 2004
Esteban Buch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
»Arnold Schönberg und die Musikkritik bis zum Skandalkonzert 1913«

March 8 – 23, 2005
Alfred W. Cramer, Pomona College, California, USA
»The Sound of Atonality«

März 27 – April 17, 2005
Jean-Jacques Dünki, Musik-Akademie Basel, Switzerland
»Schönbergs Zeichen. Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik«

June 10 – 28, 2005
Alexander Carpenter, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Research on the waltz as is occurs in Arnold Schoenberg's music.

July 18 – 29, 2005
Matthias Pazdzierny, Musikhochschule Stuttgart
»Die Aufführungslehre Arnold Schönbergs«

August 22 – September 4, 2005
Russell Knight, University of California, USA
Arnold Schönbergs »Erwartung« op. 17

August 22 – September 5, 2005
Hasan Isben Önen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkei
»On Arnold Schönberg. The abstraction of abstract. A socio-cultural study«

December 7 – 21, 2005
Elizabeth Keathley, University of North Carolina, USA
Arnold Schoenberg’s female students

July 24 – August 11, 2006
Markus Böggemann, Universität der Künste, Berlin
»Schönbergs Mozart: Zwischen Radikalisierung und neuer Normativität« sowie »Arnold Schönbergs musikalischer Expressionismus zwischen avantgardistischer Kunstprogrammatik und Historismusproblem«

May 14 – 25, 2007
Renate Rohlfing, New York / Hawai
Buch der hängenden Gärten

June 12 – 21, 2007
Deborah H. How, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles
»Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, op. 25: Paradoxes and Innovations in Music after World War I«

Juli 30 – August 10, 2007
Stefanie Rauch, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
»Die Arbeitsweise Arnold Schönbergs – Kunstgenese und Schaffensprozess«


Further educational projects sponsored by the Avenir Foundation:

Arnold Schönberg. Catalogue raisonné
Digitizing Project Schönberg’s Correspondence
Multimedia Exhibition on the life and works of Arnold Schönberg
Critical Edition of Arnold Schönberg’s Writings