Richard Taruskin, a music scholar and historian of wide influence and spectacular fecundity who wrote the gigantic “Oxford History of Western Music,” died July 1 at a hospital in Oakland, Calif. He was 77.
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Richard Taruskin, provocative scholar of classical music, dies at 77
He published a six-volume history of Western music and was known for his strong opinions of composers
By Tim Page