Prizes, grants and awards
- 1986 Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for publication of dissertation
- 1987-1990 Post-doc grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for research project in Paris
- 1988 Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for invitation to International Congress of the IMS in Melbourne
- 1992 Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for publication of habilitation
- 1997 Third-party funding by Fritz Thyssen foundation for employment of assistants for 3 years for the edition of Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète
- 2002 “Deutscher Musik-Editions-Preis” for “Die Geschichte der Musik”, Laaber 2001 (3 vol. 1200 p.) together with my coeditor Michael Heinemann
- 2004 Award “Book of the year” (chosen by the 50 most important music critics of Germany) for my reprint edition of the German translation of the Writings of Hector Berlioz (10 vol.), Laaber 2003
- 2011 Call in the Class of Humanitys at the Nordrhein-westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and
- 2012 Election in the Committee for musicological editions of the Union of German Academies of Siences, Mainz
- 2013 Appointment as “Officier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques” of République française
- 2017-2018 Grands of DAAD for teaching in Shanghai