Musicologica Austriaca – Call for Entries for the Best Paper Award 2026

The Austrian Musicological Society (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft) is awarding a prize for the best academic paper on the broad topic of music and musical culture in or from Austria. Researchers from all musicological fields and related disciplines are encouraged to participate. We welcome all methodological perspectives on music, musicians, and musical culture associated with Austria in a broad sense.

Call for the Best Paper Award 2026 – Musicologica Austriaca – Journal for Austrian Music Studies

The unpublished article should not exceed a length of 8000 words (including notes) and must be submitted in English or German. The evaluation of submissions will be conducted by a jury appointed by the board of directors of the Austrian Musicological Society and the award-winning text will be published as an English-language open access article in Musicologica Austriaca, free of charge. Articles that make use of the possibilities of multimedia (image, audio, and video files) are particularly encouraged. Any copyright issues should be clarified by the author, but this can also be done subsequent to receiving the award.

Please submit your article by 15 June 2026 as an MS Word file to musau@oegmw.at.

Further information can be found in the attached call for papers.

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