# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-taruskin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:41:33.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-taruskin"
name: "Richard Taruskin"
slug: "richard-taruskin"
description: "Richard Taruskin was an American musicologist. His analyses combined cultural, historical, political, and sociological perspectives with rigorous source study and sparked debate. He focused on 18th-to-21st-century Russian music but also researched 15th- and 20th-century music, analysis, modernism, musical nationalism, and performance theory. He is best known for the six-volume Oxford History of Western Music. His honors include the American Musicological Society's first Noah Greenberg Award (1978) and the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy."
tagline: "American musicologist, music critic and choral conductor (1945-2022)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-04-02"
deathDate: "2022-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump