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SAD NEWS | Acclaimed American Composer Dominick Argento Has Died

By The Violin Channel

February 21, 2019

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American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento has passed way - aged 91

American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento has passed way - aged 91.

His best known works include operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels and The Aspern Papers - and the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.

He served a long term Professorship at the University of Minnesota.

Our condolences are with Mr Argento's family, friends, colleagues and students.

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