Virgil Thomson (Composer)
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 (2)
- At the Beach (3)
- Capital, Capitals (4)
- Collected Poems (2)
- Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (2)
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (2)
- English Usage (3)
- Estampas de Ninez (3) (2)
- Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion (4)
- Fugue And Chorale On 'Yankee Doodle' (2)
- Green Fields (2)
- Hymns from the Old South (3)
- La Belle en Dormant (2)
- Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances (2)
- Louisiana Story - Suite (4)
- Mostly about Love (5)
- My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (8)
- O My Deir Hert (3)
- Oraison Funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne (2)
- Pastorale on a Christmas Plainsong (2)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (2)
- Portrait of F. B. (Frances Blood) (2)
- Praises and Prayers (5)
- Preciosilla (4)
- Ragtime Bass in C sharp (3)
- Remember Adam's Fall (2)
- Sonata Da Chiesa (4)
- Songs (5) from William Blake (2)
- Stabat Mater (4)
- String Quartet No. 2 (4)
- Susie Asado (4)
- Symphony on a Hymn Tune (6)
- The Cat (2)
- The Courtship Of The Yongly-Bongly-Bo (2)
- The Feast of Love (3)
- The Morning Star (2)
- The Plow that Broke the Plains (6)
- The River (1937) (3)
- Two by Marianne Moore (5)