Virgil Thomson
- Sound
- November 25, 1896
- September 30, 1989
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".
Known for
Filmography
- Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein · Music
- Chelsea Hotel · Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors · Self
- Poem Posters · Self
- Power Among Men · Music
- The Goddess · Music
- King Lear · Music
- Louisiana Story · Music
- Tuesday in November · Music
- The River · Music
- The Spanish Earth · Music
- The Plow That Broke the Plains · Music
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