Composer
Vincent Persichetti
American composer (1915–1987)
1915–1987
241 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 1987
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Modern
Biography
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.
His students at Juilliard included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Larry Thomas Bell, Bruce Adolphe, Louis Calabro, Moshe Cotel, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Laurie Spiegel, Kenneth Fuchs, Richard Danielpour, Lawrence Dillon, Peter Schickele, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Witt, Elena Ruehr, William Schimmel, Leonardo Balada, Gitta Steiner, Hank Beebe, Roland Wiggins, Thomas Pasatieri, Randell Croley and Leo Brouwer. He also taught composition to Joseph Willcox Jenkins and conductor James DePreist at the Philadelphia Conservatory.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- conductor; composer; musicologist; music educator; university teacher; pianist
- Education
- Curtis Institute of Music; The University of the Arts; Combs College of Music; South Philadelphia High School
- Career institutions / employers
- Juilliard School
- Recorded memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Instruments played
- organ
- Genres
- symphony
- Official website
- http://persichetti.org
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 76501168
- ISNI
- 0000000110298339
- GND ID
- 118855832
- Library of Congress ID
- n80097322
- MusicBrainz ID
- edccfb26-b418-4128-aca1-b60fcdac1599
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Flute, Voice, Bassoon, Piccolo
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue page 4 of 6
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
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| 7. And warm winds spilled fragrance into her solitudes [Text by Edmond Kowalewski] | See work details |
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| 8. To whose more clear than crystal voice the frost had joined a crystal spell [Text by Leonie Adams] | See work details |
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| 9. Sleep, weary mind; dream, heart's desire [Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay] | See work details |
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| I. All Alone [Text by Traditional, Translated by Arthur Waley] | See work details |
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| II. These Days [Text by Wang Chi, Translated by Arthur Waley] | See work details |
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| II. Makeup Mirror | See work details |
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| III. Magic Mirror | See work details |
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| IV. Mirror Lake | See work details |
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| V. Rearview Mirror | See work details |
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| II. Adagietto | See work details |
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| III. Spring is like a perhaps hand | See work details |
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| IV. In Just-spring | See work details |
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| Unroll the flicker's rousing drum [Text by Louis Untermeyer] | See work details |
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| Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears [Text by William Watson] | See work details |
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| Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears [Text by Robert Fitzgerald] | See work details |
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| Whose thin fraud I wink at privily [Text by William Watson] | See work details |
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| III. Vivace | See work details |
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| II. Strum | See work details |
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| 4. Lunar Paraphrase | See work details |
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| 6. The Wind Shifts | See work details |
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| 9. In the Clear Season of Grapes | See work details |
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| 12. Tattoo | See work details |
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| 15. Metaphors of a Magnifico | See work details |
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| 16. Gubbinal | See work details |
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| 19. Of the Surface of Things | See work details |
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| 20. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | See work details |
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| 5. Contemplation | See work details |
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| 10. Reflection | See work details |
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| One | See work details |
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| Two | See work details |
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| 2 | See work details |
2 more instruments
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| V. Soliloquy | See work details |
4 more instruments
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| IV. Andante cantabile | See work details |
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| V. Allegretto | See work details |
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| VII. Adagietto | See work details |
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| VIII. Vivo | See work details |
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| I. Stanger | See work details |
4 more instruments
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| III. You Who Celebrate Bygones | See work details |
6 more instruments
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| IV. There Is That In Me | See work details |
6 more instruments
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| VI. Flaunt Out O Sea | See work details |
6 more instruments
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| V. DANCE | See work details |
3 more instruments
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| 5 | See work details |
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| V. Dialogue | See work details |
9 more instruments
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| So Deep [Text by Izembo] | See work details |
2 more instruments
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| Gentlest Fall of Snow [Text by Basho] | See work details |
2 more instruments
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| Fallen Leaves [Text by Ryokan] | See work details |
2 more instruments
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| Chorale Prelude | See work details |
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| IX. Voyage | See work details |
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Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 76501168.