Benedict Taylor

Benedict Taylor is Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books including Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Oxford, 2016), Music, Subjectivity and Schumann (Cambridge 2022), as well as the edited volumes Rethinking Mendelssohn (Oxford 2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (2021). He is co-editor of the journal Music & Letters, series editor of Cambridge University Press's Music in Context series, and the recipient of the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association.