Virgil Thomson
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Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) 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…
Known for
- Chelsea Hotel — Self1981
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
- Poem Posters — Self1967
- 145 W. 211936
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Thomson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Nadia Boulanger
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- symphony
- Instrument
- organ
- Image
- Virgil Thomson by Carl Van Vechten.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1896-11-25
- date of death
- 1989-09-30
- Commons category
- Virgil Thomson
- cause of death
- disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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