Richard Taruskin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Taruskin

American writer

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, conductor, musicologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Richard Taruskin (born 2 April 1945, New York) 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.
As a choral conductor he directed the Columbia University Collegium Musicum.
He played the viola da gamba with the Aulos Ensemble from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.
Taruskin received his B.A.
magna cum laude (1965), M.A.
(1968) and Ph.D.
in historical musicology (1976) from Columbia University.