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Virgil Thomson

Composer
Born November 25, 1896Died September 30, 1989 (92 years)
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".

Filmography

1958
The Goddess · as Original Music Composer
1952
Omnibus (TV Series) · as Composer
1948
Louisiana Story · as Original Music Composer
1938
The River · as Original Music Composer
1937
1936
The Plow That Broke the Plains · as Original Music Composer

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