Composer

Virgil Thomson

American composer and critic (1896–1989)

1896–1989

162 works and musical collections

Born: 1896
Died: 1989
Birthplace: Kansas City
Place of death: New York City
Citizenship / historical state: United States
Period (estimated from birth year): Modern

Biography

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 which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".

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Life and musical career

Occupations: conductor; composer; music critic; film score composer; journalist
Education: Harvard University
Teachers: Nadia Boulanger
Career institutions / employers: Federal Theatre Project
Recorded memberships: American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Instruments played: organ
Genres: opera; symphony
Notable works: Lord Byron
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; National Medal of Arts; Pulitzer Prize for Music; Kennedy Center Honors; National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Languages used: English
VIAF ID: 79167878
ISNI: 0000000109192182
GND ID: 118802097
Library of Congress ID: n50012238
MusicBrainz ID: 0b0e4a44-b090-4f78-8db9-376dc32f407f

Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments: Piano, Voice, violin, Alto, bass
Genres represented: Classical
Source entries with composition dates: 0

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

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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
Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Florine Stettheimer: Parades	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Praise God Ye Christians Evywher	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Fanfare: Robin Smith	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
SEINE AT NIGHT, THE	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
My True Love Sang Me No Song	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Rodney Lister: Music For Merry-G	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Dr. Marcel Roche:making Decision	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
David Dubal: In Flight(Thomson V	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Bennett Lerner:senza Espressione	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Charles Fussell: In Meditation	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Plough Tht Broke Plains	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
One	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Two	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Return O Shulamite	See work details	Piano Voice Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
I	See work details	Flute Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
III	See work details	Flute Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Portrait Of Yng Man (Thomson V)	See work details	Clarinet Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Sung by the Shepherds	See work details	Voice Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
The Jumblies	See work details	bass Tenor Choir 1 more instruments Alto Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Half An Alphabet	See work details	bass Tenor Choir 1 more instruments Alto Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Morris Golde: Showing Delight	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Christopher Cox: Singing A Song	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Barbara Epstein: Untiring	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Franco Assetto: Drawing Virgil Thomson	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Dominique Nabakov: Round and Round	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Clair Leonard's Profile	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Connecticut Waltz: Harold Lewis Cook	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Persistently Pastoral: Aaron Copland	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Digging:h Rea	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Scanning Booklets from Ocean Resorts	See work details	See edition details Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Molly Davies: Terminations	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Dennis R Davies: In A Hammock	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
P Mcwilliams:firmly Spontaneous	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Power Boothe: With Pencil	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Malitte Matta:in Executive Suite	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Brendan Lemon: Study Piece 4 Pno	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Three	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Five	See work details	Piano Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
O my dove	See work details	Piano Voice Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
II	See work details	Flute Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Christn Berard,Prisoner	See work details	Clarinet Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Sauguet	See work details	violin Classical	View sheet music Work & edition details
Anne Miracle (Vln/Pno)thomson V	See work details	Piano violin 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 79167878. Portrait: Carl Van Vechten / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.