Click here to see the event schedule 18-19 January Oliver Strunk, the Scholar and his Legacy: Reflections on Musicology on the Centenary of his Birth an international conference to commemorate the life and legacy of Oliver Strunk, musicologist. This two-day event will shed light on the career and contributions of one of the most influential musicologists of the twentieth century. W. Oliver Strunk (1901-1980) served in the Music Division of the Library of Congress from 1928 to 1937 (becoming chief of the Division in 1934) and as professor of music at Princeton University from 1937 to 1966. He was the author of Source Readings in Music History from Classical Antiquity through the Romantic era (1950, reprinted 1965), the paleographical album Specimina notationum antiquiorum (1966), and two volumes of collected essays. From 1961 until his death, Strunk served as director of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, a series of facsimiles of Byzantine music manuscripts. In 1961, Strunk was awarded the American Council of Learned Societies' Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities. After his retirement from Princeton, Strunk moved to Grottaferrata, Italy, where he continued his studies of the Greek liturgical manuscripts of the Abbey of S. Nilo. He donated his personal library to the American Academy in Rome, where it forms the core of the Music Collection in the Library. Professor Strunk influenced the development of musicology in America through his own example and through his illustrious students. "In Oliver Strunk," one of them wrote, "the teacher, the scholar and the man are indivisible: musical insight, intellectual virtuismo, immense learning, generous tolerance, and courtesy are permeated with humane sensibility and moral responsibility." The conference will explore Oliver Strunk's unique contributions to the history of music, especially in the fields of Byzantine and Medieval chant and polyphony, musical paleography, Renaissance music, and history of opera. Participants will include many of Strunk's original students, now teaching at prestigious American universities, as well as eminent musicologists from Italy, Germany and Denmark. Sessions will be divided between the American Academy in Rome (January 18) and the Abbazia Greca di Grottaferrata (January 19). Most contributions will be in English, while some will be in Italian. Friends of the Library and the general public are invited to attend. Overview of the Academy | The Rome Prize Other Residency Opportunities | Music at the Academy Summer Programs | The Library | Fototeca | The Humanities Academy Publications | Academy Events | Alumni Apply for the Rome Prize fellowship | Academy Staff | Home