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Full Name: Richard Taruskin
Biography:
(1945-2022) Author, critic. Richard Taruskin was born in Queens, New York, and died in Oakland, California.
Author's Timeline:
1945 Queens County
Richard Filler Taruskin was born in Queens, New York, on April 2, 1945. 
1976 New York County
Mr. Taruskin studied and taught at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, and received his Ph.D. in historical musicology in 1976. 
2008 (Unknown) County
On Russian Music
(Pub: University of California Press ISBN: 0520249798 / 978-0520249790 )
Collection of writings. 
2008 (Unknown) County
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
(Pub: University of California Press ISBN: 0520249771 / 978-0520249776 )
Collection of essays. 
1996 (Unknown) County
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra, Two-volume set
(Pub: University of California Press ISBN: 0520070992 / 978-0520070998 )
Biography. 
2005 (Unknown) County
The Oxford History of Western Music
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-516979-9)
Music history. 
2020 (Unknown) County
Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices
(Pub: University of California Press ISBN: 0520344286 / 978-0520344280 )
Collection of essays. 
2022 (Unknown) County
Richard Taruskin died at a hospital in Oakland, California, on July 1, 2022. 
2016 (Unknown) County
Russian Music at Home and Abroad: New Essays
(Pub: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press ISBN: 978-0-520-28809-6)
Collection of essays. 
1997 (Unknown) County
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays
(Pub: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ISBN: 978-0-691-01156-1)
Nonfiction. 
1995 (Unknown) County
Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance
(Pub: Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-535743-1)
Collection of essays. 
1993 (Unknown) County
Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue
(Pub: Princeton: Princeton University Press ISBN: 978-0-691-01623-8)
Collection of essays. 
1965 New York County
Mr. Taruskin received a bachelor of arts from Columbia University in 1965. 
? New York County
Mr. Taruskin attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan, New York. 
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