Richard Taruskin, scholar behind the punchy blockbuster The Oxford History of Western Music – obituary
Taruskin rejected histories of classical music that depicted a miraculous chain of ‘Great Composers’ producing masterpieces in a vacuum
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Taruskin rejected histories of classical music that depicted a miraculous chain of ‘Great Composers’ producing masterpieces in a vacuum
Richard Taruskin, who died on Friday, is remembered by his former editor at The New York Times and elsewhere.
Author, critic, teacher and public intellectual, he was an unabashed flamethrower who challenged conventional thinking about classical music.
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