Reinhard Strohm

Reinhard Strohm (born August 4, 1942 in Munich ) is a German musicologist and professor at Oxford University .

Life

Reinhard Strohm studied musicology, Latin and Italian literature in Munich and Berlin from 1961 to 1971 with Thrasybulos Georgiades , Wolfgang Osthoff and Carl Dahlhaus . Strohm received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on Italian opera arias of the early Settecento (1720-1730) . From 1970 to 1982 he worked as an editor for the Richard Wagner Complete Edition in Munich. 1975–1983 he was "Lecturer in Music" at King's College London .

Strohm was Professor of Music History at Yale University from 1983 to 1990 , Reader from 1990-1996, then Professor of Historical Musicology at King's College London. From 1996 until his retirement in 2007, Strohm was Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1993 .

Strohm is a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society and co-editor of Acta Musicologica , Early Music History, Orbis musicae, Dramaturgia Musicale Veneta and the Critical Edition of the works of Antonio Vivaldi and Pietro Locatelli . The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen he belongs to as a corresponding member. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1994 and of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 2016.

Research areas

Strohm's research areas are the music history of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the 18th century, the history of opera and the historiography of musicology.

Awards

• 1977: Dent medal of the Royal Musical Association
• 2007: Glarean Prize from the Swiss Music Research Society
• 2012: Balzan Prize for Musicology

Publications

• Italian opera arias of the early Settecento (1720–1730) (= Analecta Musicologica 16). 2 volumes. Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-87252-095-4 .
• The Italian opera in the 18th century (= pocket books on musicology 25). Wilhelmshaven 1979, ISBN 3-7959-0110-3 .
• Music in Late Medieval Bruges. Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-19-316327-6 .
• The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-41745-7 .
• Dramma per musica. Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century. New Haven CT, 1997, ISBN 0-300-06454-3 .
• The operas of Antonio Vivaldi (= Studi di musica veneta: Quaderni vivaldiani 13). 2 volumes. Florence 2008, ISBN 978-88-222-5682-9 .

literature

• Christian Berger: Strohm, Reinhard. In: Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press ( online , subscription access).

Web links

• Works by and about Reinhard Strohm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhard Strohm at Oxford University
• Musical life of the late Middle Ages in the Austria region at the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Reinhard Strohm. Academia Europaea, accessed January 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Soci: Reinhard Strohm. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, accessed January 6, 2020 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Glarean Prize ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.