Christopher A. Reynolds

Reynolds is noted as a student of influence and allusion in music, from the Renaissance to the present. His 2003 book, Motives for Allusion, provided a conceptual foundation for this field and was acknowledged by the AMS as a Kinkeldey Award Finalist. His article, Porgy and Bess: An 'American Wozzeck', argued that Gershwin used Berg's opera as his model. For this he won the H. Colin Slim Award from the AMS and the Kurt Weill Prize. His book, Contrary Motions: Wagner, Schumann and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth (2015), provides evidence that Schumann and Wagner, known to despise one another, discovered together Beethoven's contrapuntal tactics in the Ninth Symphony.