Sound · geboren 1896-11-25 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Virgil Thomson

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".

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• Louisiana Story (1948) – Original Music Composer
• The River (1938) – Original Music Composer
• The Spanish Earth (1937) – Music
• The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) – Original Music Composer
• Die Göttin (1958) – Original Music Composer
• The Kennedy Center Honors (1978) – Self
• König Lear (1953) – Original Music Composer
• Chelsea Hotel (1981) – Self
• Cage/Cunningham (1991)
• Tuesday in November (1945) – Music
• Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000) – Original Music Composer
• 145 W. 21 (1936)
• Poem Posters (1967) – Self
• Power Among Men (1959) – Music