Richard Taruskin
American musicologist and music critic
Died when: 77 years 90 days (926 months)Star Sign: Aries
Richard Filler Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation.
The breadth of his scrutiny into source material as well as musical analysis that combines sociological, cultural, and political perspectives, has incited much discussion, debate and controversy.
He regularly wrote music criticism for newspapers including The New York Times.He researched a wide variety of areas, but a central topic was the Russian music of the 18th century to present day.
Other subjects he engaged with include the theory of performance, 15th-century music, 20th-century classical music, nationalism in music, the theory of modernism, and analysis.
He is best known for his monumental survey of Western classical music, the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music.He received several awards, including the first Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society in 1978, and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy in 2017.
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