| LC control no. | n 81100635 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML423.T185 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Taruskin, Richard |
| Associated place | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1945-04-02 |
| Death date | 2022-07-01 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Oakland (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Musicology |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Musicologists |
| Found in | Music of the Reformation and Counter-reformation. [Phonodisc] 1975 His Musorgsky, 1992: CIP t.p. (Richard Taruskin) pub. info. (Taruskin, Richard F.; b. 04-02-45) Wikipedia, viewed July 23, 2018: individual webpage (Richard Taruskin is an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Taruskin> Washington post WWW site, viewed July 5, 2022 (in obituary dated July 2, 2022: Richard Taruskin, a music scholar and historian of wide influence and spectacular fecundity who wrote the gigantic "Oxford History of Western Music," died July 1 in Oakland, Calif. He was 77. Dr. Taruskin, a longtime professor of musicology at the University of California at Berkeley, was best known for his writings about Russian music and particularly about Igor Stravinsky. As a PhD student at Columbia University, Dr. Taruskin worked with Paul Henry Lang. Richard Filler Taruskin was born in New York on April 2, 1945. After receiving a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in musicology in 1975 from Columbia, he taught in the university's music department until 1987, when he joined Berkeley's faculty. He was named a full professor in 1989 and retired in 2014) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 83065640 |
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