Reinhard Strohm

Reinhard Strohm studied musicology, violin, as well as Latin and Romance languages in Munich, Pisa, Milan, and Berlin. He received his PhD from the TU Berlin in 1971 (with Carl Dahlhaus). From 1970 to 1982 he was an editorial assistant of the critical edition Richard Wagner. Strohm held teaching positions at King’s College London (1975–83 and 1990–96), Yale University (1983–90), and Oxford University (1996–2010), as well as visiting professorships at Chicago, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Zurich, and Hamburg. His research focuses on European music from ca. 1400 to 1800, the history of opera, historiography, and postmodern criticism of musicology. Strohm’s Balzan research project “Towards a Global History of Music” was completed in 2017.

Vol. 2 • No. 1 • 2018

Tradition, Heritage, History: A View on Language

Reinhard Strohm

I remember the time (1981) when the IFMC—the International Folk Music Council—renamed itself ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music). I was relieved to hear this, because, as a German brought up in the 1950s, I had learned to suspect the …