Eugene K. Wolf Fund

supporting travel for research in Europe

 


The Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund is intended to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates in all fields of musical scholarship to travel to Europe to for their dissertation work. The fund awards one or more travel grants each year to students attending North American universities who have completed all requirements except the dissertation for the Ph.D. See list of fellows.

Eugene Wolf (1939–2002) was professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania from 1973 until his retirement in 1998. Prior to that time he had taught at Syracuse University and over the course of his career was also visiting professor at Columbia, Princeton, UNC, and Bryn Mawr. He held the BA in trombone from Eastman (1961) and the MA and PhD from NYU (1964, 1972).

He was the leading expert of his generation on the origins, style, and sources of the 18th-century symphony. His article on "A Newly Identified Complex of Manuscripts from Mannheim," written jointly with his wife Jean K. Wolf, won the 1975 Alfred Einstein prize. His definitive treatment, Manuscripts from Mannheim, ca. 1730-1778, A Study in the Methodology of Musical Source Research (2002) was published just before his death. In the 1990s, working with the William Howard Doane collection of music manuscripts, Wolf identified the missing autograph of Mozart's C-Minor Fantasia and Sonata (K. 475/457) and rare manuscripts of works by Haydn and Meyerbeer.

He was a Rockefeller Fellow (1966–67) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1975–76) and held fellowships from the NEH and ACLS. Additionally he was American advisor to the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France, for the project "Musical Life in Europe 1600-1900." In 2002, Wolf was named first honorary member of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, recognizing his lifetime achievement.

as of 1 August 2008:

Balance (OPUS Campaign): $85,010

Donors (169):

Gary and Lila Aamodt
Peter M. Alexander
Alison Anderson
Anonymous Matching Donor**
Joan Applegate
Ingrid C. Arauco
Charles Atkinson
Kenneth and Annette Atwood
M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
Angela and Irma Bauer-Levesque
Thomas Bauman
Lawrence Bennett
Lawrence Bernstein*
Joanna Cobb Biermann
David Black
Adrienne Fried Block
S. Garrett Bolger
Susan L. Boynton
Bruce Alan Brown*
Michael Broyles
Beth A. Bullard
J. Peter Burkholder*
Scott Burnham
Carlo Caballero
Ellon D. Carpenter
Paul Cauthen
Thomas Christensen
Bathia Churgin
Mark Clague
Caryl Clark
Maribeth Clark
Malcolm Cole
Thomas Connolly
Susan Cook
Lenore Coral
Paul Corneilson
Mary W. Davidson
Dorothy De Val
Bama Lutes Deal
Lynore DeSilets
Daniel J. Dicenso
George K. Diehl
Emma Dillon
Elizabeth Dugan
Katherine Ellis
Mary Ellison
Michelle Fillion and Gordon Muma
Stephen Fisher
Kristine Forney*
Suzanne Forsberg
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Don Franklin
Richard Freedman*
Sean Gallagher
Aubrey Garlington
Jane Girdham
Catherine Gjerdingen
Robert Gjerdingen
Jonathan Glixon
Marie-Louise Göllner*
Bonnie Gordon
Floyd Grave
Anne Gross
Sanja Grujic-Vlajnic
Bruce Gustafson
James Haar
Barbara Haggh-Huglo
John Hajdu Heyer
Kelley A. Harness
Victoria Harris
Marjorie Hassen
Elisabeth Hasslacher
Christopher Hasty
Daniel Heartz**
D. Kern Holoman
Robert Hopkins
Kay and Michael Jaffee
Jeffrey Kallberg
YouYoung Kang
Theodore Karp
Michael and Jane Keenan
Herbert Kellman*
G. Yvonne Kendall
Walpurga Kessler
Carolyn Kidder
K. M. Knittel
Charlotte Kolczynski
Benjamin Korstvedt
Richard Kramer
Elias Kulukundis
Jeffrey Kurtzman
Charlotte Leonard
Janet M. Levy
Kenneth Levy
Lowell Lindgren
Dorothea Link
Louise Litterick
Justin London
Kathryn Lowerre
Patrick Macey
Mary S. Machlem
Bruce C. MacIntyre
Robert Marshall
Rosemarie P. Mauro
Marita P. McClymonds
Leonard Meyer
Nancy Morgan
Mary Sue Morrow
Rex Morthland
Sterling Murray
Arthur Ness
Jeremy Noble
Robert Nosow
Michael Ochs
Massimo Ossi
Jessie Ann Owens**
Hilary Palmer
Susan Parisi*
Jann Pasler
Larry Payne
Jane Perry-Camp
Mary Ann Peterson
Pierluigi Petrobelli
Harold Powers**
William Prizer*
Vivian Ramalingam
Don Randel
Julia Randel
Christopher Reynolds
Joshua Rifkin
George Rochberg
Edward and Linda Roesner
Ellen Rosand
Lois Rosow
Jeanne Ryder
Carl B. Schmidt
Emanuele Senici
W. Anthony Sheppard
Jeffery Shim
Elaine Sisman
H. Colin Slim
Mary Ann Smart
Norman E. Smith
Morten Solvik
John Spitzer
Jeffrey Sposato
Pamela F. Starr
Jane R. Stevens
Peter Eliot Stone
Edmond Strainchamps
John Suess
Nicholas Temperley
Darius Thieme
Aidan Thomson
Jeanne Thompson
Jurgen Thym
Gary Tomlinson
Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Music
An van Allen-Russell
Cynthia Verba
Etienne Vilain
James Webster
Richard Wernick*
Miriam Whaples
Gretchen Wheelock
Darryl White
Jean K. Wolf
Christoph Wolff
Craig Wright*
Neal Zaslaw
Steven Zohn

** = $5,000 or more
  * = $1,000 or more