Virgil Thomson
Opera, Composer
1896 – 1989
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Who was Virgil Thomson?
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 neoclassicist, 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", and a neoromantic.
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- Born
- Nov 25, 1896
Kansas City - Also known as
- Thomson, Virgil
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- PhD, Conservatoire de Paris
- Lived in
- Paris
- Kansas City
- New York City
( - 1989/09/30) - Boston
- Died
- Sep 30, 1989
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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