{{Short description|British-Australian musicologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
'''Richard Toop''' (1 August 1945 – 19 June 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/richard-toop-obituary|title=Richard Toop – obituary|author=Rachel Campbell|publisher=Australian Music Centre|date=29 June 2017|access-date=5 January 2023}}</ref> was a British-Australian musicologist.
Toop was born in Chichester, England, in 1945.<ref name="Limelight">{{Cite magazine|url=https://limelightmagazine.com.au/news/richard-toop-has-died/|title=Richard Toop has died|author=Angus McPherson|magazine=Limelight|date=20 June 2017|access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref> He studied at Hull University, where his teachers included Denis Arnold.<ref name="AMC" />
In 1973 he became Karlheinz Stockhausen's teaching assistant at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne. In 1975 he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he was head of musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium (University of Sydney).<ref name="AMC" /> His publications include a monograph on György Ligeti, and the ''New Grove'' entries on Stockhausen and Brian Ferneyhough.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=xvii|year=2004|isbn=9780521662567|editor-last=Cook|editor-first=Nicholas|editor-link=Nicholas Cook|location=Cambridge|editor-last2=Pople|editor-first2=Anthony}}</ref> As a young pianist in 1967, he gave in a 24-hour marathon in London the first documented solo performance of ''Vexations'' by Erik Satie.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-dangerous-and-evil-piano-piece|title=A Dangerous and Evil Piano Piece |last=Sweet|first=Sam|date=9 September 2013|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date= 21 October 2022}}</ref>
Toop died on 19 June 2017 at the age of 71.<ref name="AMC">[https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/richard-toop-1945-2017 "Richard Toop (1945–2017)"], Australian Music Centre, 20 June 2017</ref>
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