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
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; Arts and Letters Award in Music; Kennedy Center Friedheim Award
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 5 of 6

Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.

Works and musical collections with sheet music details
Title	Work details	Listed instruments	Sheet music
1. Should Fancy Cease	See work details	Piano Voice Choir Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
2. Preface To Canons [Text by Herman Reichenbach]	See work details	Piano Voice Choir Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
3. Hallelujah, Bum Again [Text by Anonymous]	See work details	Piano Voice Choir Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Microbe , op. 75, no. 2 Performed by Vincent Persichetti	Catalogue / opus op. 75, no. 2	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Ben Articolato	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Caloroso	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Grazioso	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Piano Concerto	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Parable Iv Op.110	Catalogue / opus Op.110	Guitar Bassoon Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
I Sing The Body Electric	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Winter Cantata	See work details	Flute Alto Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 1. Unroll the flicker's rousing drum	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 2. Soft is the collied night	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 3. Gather for festival bright weed and purple shell	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 4. Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 5. Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. I - 6. Whose thin fraud I wink at privily	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. II - 7. And warm winds spilled fragrance into her solitudes	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. II - 8. To whose more clear than crystal voice the frost had joined a crystal spell	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. II - 9. Sleep, weary mind; dream, heart's desire	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. II - 10. Dust in sunlight, and memory in corners	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. II - 11. Make me drunken with deep red torrents of joy	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - 12. Rear its frondings sighing in aetherial fields	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - 13. Listen! Can you hear the antic melody of fear those two anxious feet are playing?	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - 14. Puffed out and marching upon a blue sky	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - 15. And hung like those top jewels of night	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - 16. Each gay dunce shall lend a hand	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Poems, Vol. III - Sources of Poems	See work details	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Four Arabesques, Op. 141	Catalogue / opus Op. 141	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 1. Berceuse	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 2 Capriccio	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 3. Dialogue	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 4. Masque	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 5. Statement	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 6. Arietta	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 7. Humoreske	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 8. Fanfare	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 9. Interlude	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 10. Prologue	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 11.Canon	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 12. Epilogue	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 13. Fugue	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
Little Piano Book, Op. 60 - 14. Gloria	Catalogue / opus Op. 60	Piano	View sheet music Work & edition details
O Cool Is the Valley	See work details	Piccolo Cornet Tenor Saxophone	View sheet music Work & edition details
Symphony for Band	See work details	Piccolo Cornet Tenor Saxophone Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Pageant, Op. 59	Catalogue / opus Op. 59	Piccolo Tenor Saxophone Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Divertimento for Band	See work details	Piccolo English Horn Tenor Saxophone Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Psalm for Band	See work details	Piccolo Tenor Saxophone Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details

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.