Gösta Neuwirth Gösta Neuwirth (born 6 January 1937) is an Austrian composer and musicologist. He studied in Vienna and Berlin where he wrote a dissertation on harmony in Schreker's Der ferne Klang. He has taught at universities and music universities including Musikhochschule Graz, University of Graz, Universität der Künste Berlin and University of Freiburg. His compositions include a string quartet and a chamber opera. Life Born in Vienna, Neuwirth comes from a musical family; the pianist Harald Neuwirth is his brother, whose daughter Olga Neuwirth is a composer. He received instructions in violin and piano from 1944. He studied composition with Karl Schiske at the Wiener Musikakademie, and music and theatre studies at the University of Vienna. His dissertation topic in musicology, Anton Webern, was not accepted. After a brief period as a journalist at the in Graz, he continued his studies from 1963 at the Free University of Berlin with Adam Adrio. In 1968 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on harmony in Schreker's Der ferne Klang (Die Harmonik in der Oper "Der ferne Klang" von Franz Schreker. From 1968 to 1970 Neuwirth worked in the Mendelssohn-Archiv of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and from 1970 to 1972 he was a member of the Schönberg-Gesamtausgabe. From 1973 to 1982, Neuwirth headed the electronic studio of the Musikhochschule Graz and lectured on music history at both Musikhochschule and the University of Graz. From 1982 to 2000 he was professor of history of music theory at the Universität der Künste Berlin, since 2009 he has been honorary professor at the University of Freiburg. Numerous renowned composers, including Bernhard Lang, Peter Ablinger, Georg Friedrich Haas, Arnulf Herrmann, Isabel Mundry, Hanspeter Kyburz, Orm Finnendahl, Enno Poppe and Oliver Korte, are among his students. For his 70th birthday, the 2007 Styriarte festival organized a tribute with his and Schreker's works. On the occasion of his 80th birthday the Society of Friends of Music in Donaueschingen organized a concert with works by Neuwirth as well as his teacher Karl Schiske and his students Peter Ablinger and Martin Kapeller. Awards 1975 Förderpreis of Graz 1976 Hugo Wolf-Preis 1988 Johann Joseph Fux-Preis of Styria 1995 2002 Maria-Ensle-Preis of the 2008 Kompositionspreis des Musikprotokolls Publications Franz Schreker, Vienna 1959 Parsifal und der musikalische Jugendstil, in Richard Wagner. Werk und Wirkung, edited by Carl Dahlhaus (Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, volume 26), Regensburg 1971, Arnold Schönberg, Von heute auf morgen. Text und Skizzen, edited by Gösta Neuwirth (Arnold Schönberg, Sämtliche Werke, Abt. 111, Bühnenwerke, series B, Rd. 7/I), Mainz 1972. Kritischer Bericht dazu (with Tadeusz Okuljar), Mainz 1974 Alexander Zemlinskys Sechs Gesänge für eine mittlere Stimme nach Texten von Maurice Maeterlinck Op. 12 und Franz Schrekers Fünf Gesänge für eine tiefe Stimme. Ein Vergleich, in Alexander Zemlinsky. Tradition im Umkreis der Wiener Schule (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, volume 7), Vienna 1976, Wozzeck I, 1. Formdisposition und musikalisches Material, in 50 Jahre Wozzeck von Alban Berg. Vorgeschichte und Auswirkungen in der Opernästhetik (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, volume 10), Vienna 1978, Zur Alexander Skrjabin-Renaissance, in Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 33rd year (1978), Der späte Schreker and Ein unbekanntes Lied Schrekers, in Franz Schreker. Am Beginn der Neuen Musik (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, volume 11), Vienna 1978, Schönbergs George-Lieder Op. 19. Die Entwürfe zum XIV. Lied, in Bericht über den Kongreß der Internationalen Schönberg-Gesellschaft Wien 1974, edited by Rudolf Stephan, Vienna 1978, Symbol und Form, in Johann Joseph Fux, Litaneien, Vespern, Kompletorien (complete work, volume 2,2), Kassel 1979, Musik um 1900, in Art nouveau. Jugendstil und Musik, edited by Jürg Stenzl, Zürich 1980, ROTAS – SATOR. For Ernst Krenek dated 23 August 1980, in