Previous postings for April 2nd may be found here: EmmyLou Harris (2019), Marvin Gaye (2020), Franz Asplmayr (2021), Franz Lachner (2022), Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (2023), and Franz Lachner (2024)
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Richard Taruskin (2 April 1945 – 1 July 2022) was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation.
En Garde!
Mr. Taruskin courted controversy in nearly everything he wrote. He had a no-holds-barred approach to intellectual combat. – excerpts adapted from William Robin, "Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77," www.nytimes.com
Richard Taruskin was someone with whom
It was foolish to vie in polemics,
With rhetorical flair he commanded the room
And crushed less assured academics!
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