
Reinhard Strohm is an Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Oxford (Heather Professor 1996–2007), and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include 18th-century Italian opera, particularly of Handel and his contemporaries, late-medieval music and its social context, and modernist/postmodernist debates in musical historiography. Professor Strohm won the 2012 Balzan prize. Further details of his work can be found on his Faculty of Music profile.
Reinhard's major publications include Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the Eighteenth Century, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997; The Eighteenth-Century Diaspora of Italian Music and Musicians, ed. R. Strohm, Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages, ed. R. Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn, Oxford University Press, 2001; 'Looking back at ourselves: the problem with the musical work-concept', in The Musical Work. Reality or Invention?, ed. M. Talbot, Liverpool University Press, 2000, 128-52; 'Collapsing the dialectic: the enlightenment tradition in music and its critics', in Musicology and its Sister Disciplines: Past, Present and Future (Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, London, 1997), ed. D. Greer, Oxford University Press, 2000, 263-272; and ‘Postmodern thought and the history of music: some intersections' - Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia 9 (1999), 7-24).