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Dominick Argento
Born in York, Pennsylvania, Argento studied at the Peabody Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, and in Italy with Luigi Dallapiccola. He joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1958, where he taught for nearly four decades. America's preeminent composer of lyric opera, his output — richly melodic and theatrically driven — spans operas, orchestral works, and song cycles. Major operas include Postcard from Morocco, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, and The Aspern Papers, performed widely in the US and Europe. He won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for From the Diary of Virginia Woolf and was named Composer Laureate to the Minnesota Orchestra in 1997.
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