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Birthday:
1896-11-25
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Virgil Thomson

Overview

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".

Known for

Acting
1967 Poem Posters Actor Self N/A
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1936 145 W. 21 Actor N/A
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Sound
2000 Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1959 Power Among Men Sound Music N/A
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1958 The Goddess Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1953 King Lear Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1948 Louisiana Story Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1945 Tuesday in November Sound Music N/A
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1938 The River Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1937 The Spanish Earth Sound Music 59
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1936 The Plow That Broke the Plains Sound Original Music Composer 58
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