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- Birth nameDavid Walter Del Tredici
- David Del Tredici was born on March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, USA. He was an actor, known for San Francisco Symphony Inaugural Gala (1980) and Fucking Different New York (2007). He died on November 18, 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- He was frank about his personal life and his demons - alcoholism, for one.
- Del Tredici was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who began as an experimentalist . He became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the New Romanticism, which yielded a series of rich-hued, tuneful pieces based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice" stories.
- He started his musical life as an aspiring pianist at the age of twelve, and said that if he had not been a pianist, he would have become a florist.
- He was described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of our most flamboyant outsider composers".
- David Del Tredici was a Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow.
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