Virgil Thomson
Sound · Original Music Composer · Music
Born Nov 25, 1896
Active 1936–1989 · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Kennedy Center Honors, National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
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.
Filmography
Louisiana Story (1948) — Original Music ComposerThe Spanish Earth (1937) — MusicThe River (1938) — Original Music ComposerKing Lear (1953) — Original Music ComposerTuesday in November (1945) — MusicIs Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000) — Original Music ComposerThe Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) — Original Music ComposerThe Goddess (1958) — Original Music Composer145 W. 21 (1936)Power Among Men (1959) — Music