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Joseph Kerman, Musicologist and Critic, Dead at 89

PEOPLE Posted: March 19, 2014 10:50 pm

Best known for his dismissal of Tosca as a “shabby little shocker” in his 1956 book Opera as Drama, Kerman “was a man of many parts: a scholar whose work on such topics as Beethoven and the Renaissance madrigal reflected deep research and study; a disciplinary gadfly who almost single-handedly changed the direction of academic musicology; a powerful and influential teacher; and a prolific public intellectual.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.19.14

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