American Musicological Society

Walter Frisch was named an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.

“For an extraordinary record as a scholar and many years of substantial service to the AMS. Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia since 1982, and has served as chair of the music department, director of graduate studies, and director of undergraduate studies. Frisch has written many books and articles on subjects ranging from Austro-German music of the 19th and 20th centuries to American popular music of the 20th century. His writings have won several prominent awards, including the AMS Roland Jackson Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Book on Music (twice), and have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. He has also been the recipient of many prestigious fellowships, including from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Frisch’s service to the discipline of musicology has been extensive. He has been the editor of the journal 19th-Century Music and a founder of the American Brahms Society. He has served the AMS as Vice President, member of the Board of Directors, and chair of the Publications Committee. He has also been a member of the editorial board of JAMS, the AMS Annual Meeting Program Committee, and the H. Colin Slim Award Committee. Frisch has made notable contributions to public musicology: in addition to an AMS/Library of Congress lecture, he has given numerous pre-concert talks and is the author of a review in the Boston Globe as well as four articles in the New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section.”

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