Paul Pisk

Paul Amadeus Pisk (May 16, 1893, Vienna - January 12, 1990, Los Angeles) was an Austria-born composer and musicologist. A prize named in his honor is the highest award for a graduate student paper at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society.

He learned from Arnold Schönberg and Guido Adler. The first airing of his music by the British Broadcasting Corporation took place on July 3, 1930, when Austrian pianist Friedrich Wührer played Pisk's "Suite for Piano".

His notable students include Samuel Adler and Gary Lee Nelson.

Major publications

*PA Pisk, "Max Reger, Briefwechsel mit Herzog Georg II von Sachsen-Meiningen." "Journal of the American Musicological Society," Vol. 3, No. 2,149-151. Summer, 1950. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0139(195022)3%3A2%3C149%3AMRBMHG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L JSTOR]
*PA Pisk - "Subdivision of Tones: A Modern Music Theory and Philosophy" "Bulletin of the American Musicological Society", 1942, v.36 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1544-4708(194208)6%3C35%3ASOTAMM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V JSTOR]
*PA Pisk "The Fugue Themes in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier" "Bulletin of the American Musicological Society", No. 8 (Oct., 1945), pp. 28-29- [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1544-4708(194510)8%3C28%3ATFTIBW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M JSTOR]

References

*Jennifer Ruth Doctor, "The BBC and Ultra-modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes" (1999) - Cambridge University Press
*J Glowacki. "Paul A. Pisk: Essays in His Honor" (1966) - College of Fine Arts, University of Texas
*E Antokoletz, "A Survivor of the Vienna Schoenberg Circle: An Interview with Paul A. Pisk" " Tempo", Tempo, New Ser., No. 154, 15-21.(1985) [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982(198509)2%3A154%3C15%3AASOTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T JSTOR]

External links

* [http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.p/p496932.htm AEIOU]