Dominick Argento(1927-2019)

Writer
Composer
Music Department

Dominick Argento was born on 27 October 1927 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and composer, known for Great Performances (1971), Der Bär (1964) and Postcard from Morocco (2019). He was married to Carolyn Bailey. He died on 20 February 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Known for

Great Performances

7.9

TV Series

Writer

Der Bär

TV Movie

Writer

1964

Postcard from Morocco

Video

Music Department

2019

MN Original

TV Series

self
Self - MN Opera founding member

Credits

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Writer

Great Performances
7.9
TV Series
- libretto
- 1989
Der Bär
TV Movie
- adaption
- 1964

Composer

Great Performances
7.9
TV Series
- Composer
- 1989

Music Department

Postcard from Morocco
Video
- music
- 2019

Personal details

Official sites
- France's national library catalogue
- Publisher
Born
- October 27, 1927
- York, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- February 20, 2019
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Spouses
Other works
He was composer for George Bernard Shaw's play, "Saint Joan," at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater at 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota with Tom Slater, Ellen Geer (Joan) and Claude Woolman in the cast. Douglas Campbell was director. Tanya Moiseiwitsch was set and costume designer. Richard Borgen was lighting designer.
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Trivia
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for a song cycle called "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf," a setting of eight entries from Woolf's diaries.

Quotes
The voice is not just another instrument. It's the instrument par excellence, the original instrument, a part of the performer rather than an adjunct to him.