
Virgil Thomson
Personal Info
Known for
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1896-11-25
Day of Death
1989-09-30 (92 years old)
Virgil Thomson
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
Acting
(1967)
Poem Posters
as Self
(1936)
Crew
(2000)
(1959)
Power Among Men
Music
(1958)
The Goddess
Original Music Composer
(1953)
King Lear
Original Music Composer
(1948)
Louisiana Story
Original Music Composer
(1945)
Tuesday in November
Music
(1938)
The River
Original Music Composer
(1937)
The Spanish Earth
Music
(1936)
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Original Music Composer