Joshua Rifkin
Composer
1944 –
Who is Joshua Rifkin?
Joshua Rifkin is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist, and is currently a Professor of Music at Boston University. As a performer he has recorded music by composers from Antoine Busnois to Silvestre Revueltas, and as a scholar has published research on composers from the Renaissance to the 20th century. He is famed among classical musicians and aficionados for his increasingly influential theory that most of Bach's choral works were sung with only one singer per choral line. Rifkin argued: "So long as we define 'chorus' in the conventional modern sense, then Bach's chorus, with few exceptions, simply did not exist." He is best known by the general public, however, for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s, with the three albums he recorded of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records.
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- Born
- Apr 22, 1944
New York City - Also known as
- Rifkin, Joshua
- Josh Rifkin
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- Juilliard School
- Princeton University
- University of Göttingen
- New York University
- Employment
- Nonesuch Records
(1964 - 1975) - Brandeis University
(1970 - 1982)
- Nonesuch Records
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on July 23, 2013
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