Avenir Foundation-Research Grants

The Avenir Foundation of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, supports our foundation and others to assist students and scholars from many countries in obtaining travel and accommodation grants for 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 an additional period 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.

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:

1998
Elisabeth Sommernes, University of Oslo (Norway)
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings«

1999
Marc Kerling, University of Bonn (Germany)
»Moses and Aron«

2000
Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg: Der musikalische Gedanke«

2001
Annegret Seidel, Kunsthaus Dresden (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg: Paintings and drawings (Kuratierung)«

Matthias Herrmann, University of Dresden (Germany)
»Schönberg and Dresden/Leipzig«

Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg: Spätwerk«

Markus Böggemann, Hochschule der Künste Berlin (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg: Suite for String Orchestra«

Andreas Jacob, Folkwang-Hochschule Essen (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg als Musiktheoretiker«

Richard Kurth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
»Arnold Schönberg: Echoes of the Unrepresentable«
»The Art of Cadence«

Michelle Duncan, Cornell University Ithaka (USA)
»Music and Memory«

Marinella Ramazzotti, University of Bologna (Italy)
»Pierrot lunaire«, »Moses and Aron«

2002
Ina Karr, University of Freiburg (Germany)
»Arnold Schönberg and the Stage«

Áine Heneghan, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
»The relationship between principles of the Schönbergian Formenlehre and the early evolution of the twelve-tone method«

2003
Jean-Jacques Dünki, Basel (Switzerland)
»Arnold Schönberg’s Piano Music«

Florian Heesch, University of Cologne (Germany)
»The influence of August Strindberg on opera in the first half of the 20th century«

Ralf-Alexander Kohler, TU Berlin (Germany)
»Zur Werkgenese der Jakobsleiter«

Stephen Peles, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa (USA)
»Moderne Psalmen«

Sokol Shupo, Universität Tirana (Albania)
»Harmonielehre« (Quellenrecherchen und Übersetzung ins Albanische)

Felix Wörner, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, (Germany)
»Untersuchungen zur frühen Schönberg-Biographik«; »Dodekaphonierezeption«

2004
Daniel Callahan, New York University (USA)
»Transfigured Text: Richard Dehmel's Weib und Welt and the Music of Arnold Schönberg's Dehmel-Jahr«

Esteban Buch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
»Arnold Schönberg und die Musikkritik bis zum Skandalkonzert 1913«

2005
Alfred W. Cramer, Pomona College, California (USA)
»The Sound of Atonality«

Jean-Jacques Dünki, Musik-Akademie Basel (Switzerlan)
»Schönbergs Zeichen. Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik«

Alexander Carpenter, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada)
Research on the waltz as is occurs in Arnold Schoenberg's music.

Matthias Pazdzierny, Musikhochschule Stuttgart (Germany)
»Die Aufführungslehre Arnold Schönbergs«

Russell Knight, University of California (USA)
Arnold Schönbergs »Erwartung« op. 17

Hasan Isben Önen, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey)
»On Arnold Schönberg. The abstraction of abstract. A socio-cultural study«

Elizabeth Keathley, University of North Carolina (USA)
Arnold Schoenberg’s female students

2006
Markus Böggemann, Universität der Künste, Berlin (Germany)
»Schönbergs Mozart: Zwischen Radikalisierung und neuer Normativität« sowie »Arnold Schönbergs musikalischer Expressionismus zwischen avantgardistischer Kunstprogrammatik und Historismusproblem«

2007
Renate Rohlfing, New York / Hawai (USA)
»Buch der hängenden Gärten«

Deborah H. How, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles (USA)
»Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, op. 25: Paradoxes and Innovations in Music after World War I«

Stefanie Rauch, Philipps-Universität, Marburg (Germany)
»Die Arbeitsweise Arnold Schönbergs – Kunstgenese und Schaffensprozess«

2008
Bryan Proksch, McNeese State University, Lake Charles (Canada)
»Schönberg und Debussy«

Hasan Isben Önen, Universität Ankara (Turkey)
»Remarks to Form in Architecture and Music«

J. Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina (USA)
»Schönberg as Energeticist«

Eric Lecler, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille (France)
»Moses und Aron«

Charlotte Cross, New York (USA)
»Manuscripts T37.08 and T35.2 from Schönberg’s Gedanke Project:
A Publication of Transcriptions, English Translations and a Commentary«

Eva Schönnenbeck, Université Paris Saint Denis (France)
»Die Bedeutung der Polyphonie in den atonalen Werken Schönbergs«

2009
Sabine Feißt, Arizona State University, Tempe (USA)
»Arnold Schönberg in America«

Gordon Root, State University of New York, Fredonia (USA)
»Models for Beginners in Composition«


Further projects at the Arnold Schönberg Center sponsored by the Avenir Foundation:

• Multi-Media Exhibition on the Life and Work of Arnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951) “An Exhibition To Be Heard”
• Critical Complete Edition of the Writings of Arnold Schönberg
• Schönberg Correspondence Digitizing Project
• Arnold Schönberg. Catalogue raisonné
• Outreach programs for children and teenager
• International Student Exchange, Schönberg Academy