Law professor, music historian among winners of Balzan Prizes

ROME — A U.S. law professor-philosopher, a British botanist, a German-born music historian and an Australian climate expert have won this year’s Balzan Prizes.

The Balzans are awarded each year in a variety of fields and are given by a foundation based in Milan and Zurich, Switzerland. Each prize is worth 750,000 Swiss francs (about €620,000 or $790,000), and half of the amount must be destined for research, preferably involving young scholars....

Reinhard Strohm, 70, a German-born music scholar, won the musicology prize. He was praised for extensive research on the history of European music from the late Middle Ages to the present, among other contributions....