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Michael Horvit

Born: 22nd June 1932, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Nationality: American

Michael Miller Horvit is an American composer. Horvit trained at Yale University and Boston University and studied with Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Walter Piston, as well as Quincy Porter and Gardner Read. He was a professor of music theory and composition on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.

He is coauthor, with Thomas Benjamin and Robert Nelson, of Techniques and Materials of Music (2003/2008). Thomson Schirmer. 7th edition.

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