Virgil Thomson
Born: 25th November 1896, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A
Died: 30th September 1989, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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- A Prayer to St. Catherine (4)
- A Solemn Music (4)
- At the Beach (5)
- At the Spring (2)
- Bennett Lerner: Senza espressione (2)
- Capital, Capitals (6)
- Collected Poems (3)
- Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion (2)
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (3)
- English Usage (3)
- Family Portrait (2)
- Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion (4)
- Hymns from the Old South (3)
- If thou a reason dost desire to know (2)
- John Peel (2)
- Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances (3)
- Louisiana Story - Suite (7)
- Mostly about Love (7)
- My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (10)
- O My Deir Hert (3)
- Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard (2)
- Power Among Men - Fugues & Cantilenas (2)
- Praises and Prayers (5)
- Preciosilla (4)
- Sonata Da Chiesa (4)
- Sonata for Flute Alone (3)
- Stabat Mater (4)
- String Quartet No. 1 (3)
- String Quartet No. 2 (6)
- Susie Asado (4)
- Symphony No. 2 in C major (2)
- Symphony No. 3 (2)
- Symphony on a Hymn Tune (6)
- Synthetic Waltzes (2)
- The Feast of Love (4)
- The Mother of Us All (2)
- The Plow that Broke the Plains (9)
- The River (1937) (3)
- Two by Marianne Moore (5)
- Violin Sonata (2)
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