Sound

Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson je známý především z: The Kennedy Center Honors. Virgil Thomson se narodil 25. listopadu 1896. Virgil Thomson zemřel(a) 30. září 1989 ve věku 92 let.

Narození: 25. listopadu 1896
Místo narození: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Úmrtí: 30. září 1989 (92 let)

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