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Argento, Dominick (1927– )| US composer. He studied with Alan Hovhaness and Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music, New York, and with Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy. His music is in an agreeably tonal idiom. |
Works Opera Sicilian Limes (1954), The Boor (1957), Christopher Sly (1963), The Masque of Angels (1964), The Shoemaker's Holiday (1967), The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1976), Miss Havisham's Fire (1978), Casanova's Homecoming (1985), The Aspern Papers (1988), The Dream of Valentino (1993). |
Orchestral A Ring of Time (1972), Five Variations (1982); Capriccio: Rossini in Paris, for clarinet and orchestra (1985). |
Oratorio Jonah and the Whale (1973). |
Other choral music and song-cycles, including Six Elizabethan Songs for voice and ensemble (1958); In Praise of Music (1977); Casa Guidi, five songs for mezzo and orchestra (1983); Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe (1985). |
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