Karol Berger (born 1947) is a Polish-American musicologist.
[2] He is currently a retired member of the Department of Music at Stanford University, where he holds the Osgood Hooker Professorship in Fine Arts.
[1] He is the recipient of awards from the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (1995) and the Swiss Musicological Society (the 2011 Glarean Award),[3] and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (the 2014 Humboldt Research Award).
Berger’s work has focused on the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance, aesthetic theory, and Austro-German music from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
He is married to the musicologist Anna Maria Busse Berger.