Professor Reinhard Strohm recognised
14 Jan 08
Reinhard Strohm, Professor of Music, has been recognised for his achievements with the award of the first ever Glarean Prize for Music Research by the Swiss Music Society, a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship and through the publication of a “festschrift” – a collection of essays written in his honour.
The Glareanus Prize is a new venture through which the Swiss Music Society intends to foster research into music and the role of music and music publishing in the spread of ideas. The prize is named after Henricus Glareanus, a sixteenth century Renaissance Humanist and Swiss music thinker. Professor Strohm has been recognised for his work on late-medieval European music and its social aspects, particularly the distribution of music in Europe and the relationship between humanism and music in the early modern period. He will use the research prize for research on Bach, on 18th century music iconography as well as further research on humanists and music.
Professor Strohm has also been awarded one of the 30 prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowships announced for 2008. Emeritus Fellowships are awarded to academics about to retire to enable them to develop their own individual research output. Professor Strohm will be completing a joint book project, entitled The Classicist Ideology: Music and Culture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with Professor Ruth HaCohen of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
In honour of Professor Strohm’s 65th birthday a volume of essays has been published in his honour. Music as Social and Cultural Practice: essays in honour of Reinhard Strohm contains 23 essays on music history and is supported by the Oxford Faculty of Music and Wadham College.
Commenting on the awards Professor Strohm said: ‘I am extremely surprised and gratified to have been awarded the Glareanus Prize, I am particularly honoured to be connected to the name of the Heinricus Glareanus. The Leverhulme Fellowship will give me an excellent opportunity to work on a long-delayed book project, which will offer new perspectives on how classical antiquity was observed and understood in the Baroque age.’