Alexander Rehding
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Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University
. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he also held a research fellowship at Emmanuel College
. He held positions at the Penn Humanities Forum and the Princeton Society of Fellows before joining Harvard's Department of Music in 2003. Rehding is co-editor of Acta musicologica (with Philippe Vendrix).
In 2009 Rehding was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
and the American Council of Learned Societies
(ACLS). He has also received support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he also held a research fellowship at Emmanuel College
Emmanuel College
Emmanuel College may refer to one of several academic institutions:in Australia* Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, part of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia...
. He held positions at the Penn Humanities Forum and the Princeton Society of Fellows before joining Harvard's Department of Music in 2003. Rehding is co-editor of Acta musicologica (with Philippe Vendrix).
In 2009 Rehding was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
and the American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
(ACLS). He has also received support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic and funded by the German Foreign Office, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and others for the promotion of international co-operation...
.
Primary Works
- Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2009).
- Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003)
External links
- Rehding biography at Harvard University
- Guggenheim Foundation Biography