Richard Taruskin
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican musicologist, music critic and choral conductor (1945-2022)
Richard Taruskin was an American musicologist. His analyses combined cultural, historical, political, and sociological perspectives with rigorous source study and sparked debate.
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John NeumeierAlso won Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
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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.
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