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Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin | |
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| Born | April 22, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Juilliard School (BS) New York University University of Göttingen Princeton University (MFA) |
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| Notable work | Scott Joplin: Piano Rags (1970) |
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| Instrument | Piano |
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Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944)[1] is an American conductor, pianist, and musicologist. He is currently a professor of music at Boston University.[2] As a performer, he has recorded music by composers from Antoine Busnois to Silvestre Revueltas; as a scholar he has published research on composers from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
Rifkin is known among classical musicians for his theory which says that most of Bach's choral works were sung with only one singer per choral line. Rifkin argued that "so long as we define 'chorus' in the conventional modern sense, then Bach's chorus with few exceptions simply did not exist."[3]
He is best known among the public for helping to revive ragtime in the 1970s by recording three albums of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 2090/1. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ "Faculty Profile: Joshua Rifkin » Musicology & Ethnomusicology | Boston University". Bu.edu. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ Fenton, James (April 26, 2003). "One for all". The Guardian. London. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
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