Professor Reinhard Strohm FBA (born 4 August 1942,

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) is a German

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

based largely in the

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, with an interest in 14th to 18th-century music. Strohm studied Musicology, Medieval Latin, and Romance Literatures, at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. Together with the University of Pi ...

, and

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

during 1961–1969. He earned his Ph.D. degree at TU Berlin in 1971, with

Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (10 June 1928 – 13 March 1989) was a German musicologist who was among the leading postwar musicologists of the mid to late 20th-century. #Selected bibliography, A prolific scholar, he had broad interests though his research foc ...

, producing a dissertation titled ''“Italienische Opernarien des frühen Settecento (1720–1730)''. Strohm taught at

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during 1975–1983 and 1990–1996 as a lecturer, then a reader, and finally a professor. Between these two periods, he was Professor of

Musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

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in the

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. He was the Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University during 1996–2007. Between 1970–1982, Strohm was a co-editor for an edition of works by

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

(''Richard-Wagner-Gesamtausgabe''). Strohm won the 2012

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for Musicology. Strohm is a

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of the

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(since 1993) and an

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of Music at

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Selected bibliography

* *Strohm, Reinhard (2008). ''The Operas of Antonio Vivaldi.''
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Istituto italiano Antonio Vivalde. Firenze
L.S.Olschki
ISBN 978-8-822-25682-9 * *Strohm Reinhard (2019). ''The Music Road, Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India.'' Proceedings of the

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

. ISBN 9780197266564 *Strohm, Reinhard (2021). ''Transcultural Music History : global participation and regional diversity in the modern age.'
Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86135-656-1

References

External links

Reinhard Strohm home page
1942 births Living people People from Munich Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni Technische Universität Berlin alumni German musicologists German expatriates in England English musicologists Academics of King's College London Yale University faculty Heather Professors of Music Fellows of the British Academy Binchois scholars Scholars of Renaissance music Scholars of Medieval music {{UK-bio-stub