Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

Dominick Argento

Born: 27th October 1927, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

Died: 20th February 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A

Nationality: American

Dominick Argento was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. He also is known for the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf; the latter earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and a lyrical use of twelve-tone writing. None of Argento's music approaches the experimental, stringent avant-garde fashions of the post-World War II era.

As a student in the 1950s, Argento divided his time between the United States and Italy, and his music is greatly influenced by both his instructors in the United States and his personal affection for Italy, particularly the city of Florence. Many of Argento's works were written in Florence, where he spent a portion of every year.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_Argento

Browse: Argento

All Genres: Argento

All Works: Argento

Recent Best Sellers: Argento

Future Releases: Argento

Download queue