Richard Taruskin
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Professor of Musicology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance; Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions; Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue and Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays.
Primary Contributions (6)
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life. He was honoured with the Royal Philharmonic Society…
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