Alexander Rehding

Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University. Rehding’s work ranges from ancient Egyptian music to the Eurovision song contest. His books include Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2009), and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (2017). A former co-editor of Acta Musicologica and convener of the John E. Sawyer Seminar in the Comparative Study of Culture on the topic of “Hearing Modernity” (2013–14), he is now editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online in Music series. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association.