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Piston, Walter (Hamor)
composer, musicisti, writer, teacher
| born: 20 Jan 1894 |
Rockland, Maine / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 12 Nov 1976 |
Belmont, Massachusetts / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| date of Variety obit: 17 Nov 1976 |
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| date of Variety obit: 17 Nov 1976 |
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
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| perf: 1953-1954 |
Venezia, Italy (La Fenici) |
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Index
p. 243-264 In:
Klein, Axel
Irish classical recordings
A discography of Irish art music
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001, 264 p.
Number of People : 1,228
Index
The above item is part of :
Larkin, Colin
The encyclopedia of popular music
Third edition
New York: Macmillan, 1998, 8 v.
Number of People : 43,747
Indice Onomastico
p. 510-520 In:
Inchausteguie, Aristides
Vida musical en Santo Domingo (1940-1965)
Santo Domingo, D.N.: 1998, 529 p.
Number of People : 1,493
Denton, D.
Review / CDs Piston : Violin Sonatina
Copland : Violin Sonata; Nocturne
Ives : Violin Sonata No. 4, Children's Day at the Camp Meeting
Baker : Blues (Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), Andre-Michel Schub (piano)) (RCA)
Karolyi, Otto
Modern American music from Charles Ives to the minimalists
London: Cygnus Arts, 1996, 143 p.
Struble, John Warthen
The history of American classical music : MacDowell through Minimalism
By John Warthen Struble
Facts on File, 1995, 444 p.
Oboe recording reviews The Incredible Walter Piston.
Double Reed: 18:21-2 N2 1995
Holmes, John L.
Conductors on composers
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, 272 p.
Record reviews Zwilich : Flute Concerto
Bernstein : Halil
Piston : Flute Concerto (Doriot Anthony Dwyer (fl), London Symphony Orchestra, c. James Sedares) (Koch International Classics)
Tempo N184:50-51 Mar 1993
Kendall, R.A.
Carterette, E.C.
Verbal attributes of simultaneous wind instrument timbres : II. adjectives induced from Piston's Orchestration
Music Perception 10:469+ N4 1993
bibliog diag graph table
Recordings Piston : the Incredible Flutist : Suite; Symphony No. 6; Three New England Sketches (St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, conductor) (RCA)
Musical America 112:48 N1 1992
Johnson, B.
Record review Piston : Symphony No. 4; Capriccio for Harp and Strings; Serenata; Three New England Sketches (Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony of the 92nd Street Y, c. Gerard Schwarz) (Delos)
Indice Dei Nomi
p. 487-570 In:
Rossi, Franco
Girardi, Michele
Il teatro la Fenici : chronologia degli spettacoli 1938-1991
Venezia: Albrizzi Editore, 1992, 650 p.
Number of People : 11,539
Johnson, B.
Record review Piston : Symphony No. 4; Capriccio for Harp and Strings; Serenata; Three New England Sketches (Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony of the 92nd Street Y, c. Gerard Schwarz) (Delos)
Pollack, Howard Joel
Harvard composers : Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1992
Klassik Walter Piston : the Incredible Flutist; Three New England Sketches; Symphonie Nr. 6 (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin) (RCA)
Stereoplay N2:153 Feb 1992
illustr.
Bierley, Paul E.
Rehrig, William H.
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music
Edited by Paul E. Bierley
William H. Rehrig
Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991
Number of People : 8,916
Schmitz, Hans-Peter
Pesek, Ursula
Flotenmusik aus drei Jahrhunderten : Komponisten : Werke : Anregungen
Mit einem Geleitwort von Hans-Peter Schmitz
Basel: Barenreiter, 1990, 320 p.
Record reviews Walter Piston : Sonata pour Piano (1926); Quintet for Pianoforte and String Quartet (1949); Improvisation (1945); Passacaglia (1943) (Leonard Hokanson, piano; the Portland String Quartet) (Northeastern CD)
American Music 8:494-6 N4 1990
Schwarz, K. Robert
Ringing true
Musical America 110:20+ N7 1990
port
MacDonald, C.
Record review (Louisville Orchestra, Albany label (CD))
Sonti, Piero
Repertorio di musica Sinfonica : gli autori, le composizioni dal seicento a oggi
MacDonald, C.
Record review (Louisville Orchestra, Albany label (CD))
Concerts.
Musical Opinion 112:102 Mar 1989
MacDonald, C.
Record review (Louisville Orchestra, Albany label (CD))
Kresh, Paul
Ovation record review
Suppan, Wolfgang
Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens
3. Auflage des Lexikons des Blasmusikwesens
Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit dem Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbande
Freiburg-Tiengen: Blasmusikverlag Schulz, 1988, 386 p.
Number of People : 2,925
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Johnson, S.
Proms
Musical Times, 126:681 Nov 1985
Butterworth, Neil
A dictionary of American composers
Number of People : 525
Porter, Andrew
Musical events American symphonists
New Yorker: 58:97 Jan 31 1983
Note: Eastman Philharmonia
Anderson, E. Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
Second edition
Compiled by E. Ruth Anderson
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p.
Number of People : 3,986
Ewen, David
Composers since 1900
A biographical and critical guide
First supplement
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1981, 328 p.
Curtis, W.D.
Piston from Boston
Arsc Journal 13:123-4 N3 1981
Note: reissue of 1956 recording
Pollack, Howard Joel
Walter Piston and his music
Cornell. 1981. dissertation.
Curtis, W.D.
Walter Piston (1894-1976) : a discography
Arsc Journal 13:76-95 N2 1981
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Number of People : 20,506
Mordden, Ethan
A guide to orchestral music
The handbook for non-musicians
New York: Oxford University Press, 1980
Martin, William R.
Drossin, Julius
Music of the twentieth century
[by] William R. Martin and Julius Drossin
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980, 400 p.
Smith, Norman
Band music notes
Revised edition
San Diego, California: Niel A. Kjos, Jr., 1979
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Reviews of music
Music Review: 40:157-8 N2 1979
Index to music necrology : 1976 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1977, p. 806
Anderson, Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
1st ed.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 513 p.
Number of People : 3,758
Lindenfeld, Harris Nelson
Three symphonies of Walter Piston, an analysis.
Cornell. 1975. dissertation.
Note: Part 2 of the Diss. Ithaca, Cornell Univ 1975.
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
Vinton, John
Dictionary of contemporary music
Edited by John Vinton
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974, 834 p.
Number of People : 1,053
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
Bull, Storm
Index to biographies of contemporary composers
Vol. II
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.
Number of People : 6,198
A list of works performed at the American Composers' Concerts and Festivals 1925-71
p. 9 In:
American Composers' Concerts and Festivals of American Music 1925-71; cumulative repertoire
Institute of American Music of the University of Rochester
Rochester, NY: 1972, 75 p.
Thomson, Virgil
Nabokov, Nicolas
American music since 1910
With an introduction by Nicolas Nabokov
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, 204 p.
(Series: Twentieth century composers; volume 1)
Taylor, Clifford
Walter Piston : For his Seventieth Birthday.
Perspectives on American Composers. Edited by Benjamin Boretz and E. T. Cone.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.
p. 171-183
musical examples
Boretz, Benjamin
Cone, Edward T.
Perspectives on American composers
Edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone
New York: W.W. Norton, 1971, 268 p.
Honneger, Marc
Dictionnaire de la musique
Publie sous la direction de Marc Honneger
Number of People : 6,183
Ewen, David
European composers today
A biographical and critical guide
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1969
Edwards, Arthur C.
Music in the United States
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, [1968], 179 p.
Westergaard, Peter
Conversation with Walter Piston.
Perspectives of New Music. 7, Nr.1 (1968), S. 3-17.
Ewen, David
The world of twentieth-century music
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968
Bellows, George Kent
Howard, John Tasker
A short history of music in America
By John Tasker Howard and George Kent Bellows
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967, 496 p.
Hansen, Peter S.
An introduction to twentieth century music
Second edition
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1967
Hansen, Peter
[Walter Piston]
musical examples
Note: Brief overview
p. 336-338 In:
Hansen, Peter
An Introduction to Twentieth Century Music.
2d ed.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1967.
Frankenstein, Alfred
A modern guide to symphonic music
By Alfred Frankenstein.
New York: Meredith Press, [c1966], xvii, 667 p.
Taylor, Clifford
Walter Piston : for his seventieth birthday.
Perspectives of New Music. 3, Nr.1 (1964), S. 102-114.
Mit 13 Notenbeisp.
Bull, Storm
Index to biographies of contemporary composers
New York: Scarecrow Press, 1964, 405 p.
Number of People : 5,157
Posell, Elsa Z.
American composers
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963
Machlis, Joseph
American composers of our time
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1963
Machlis, Joseph
Introduction to contemporary music
By Joseph Machlis
New York: W.W. Norton, 1962
Machlis, Joseph
[Walter Piston]
musical examples
Note: Brief analysis.
p. 509-511 In:
Machlis, Joseph
Introduction to Contemporary Music
New York: W. W. Norton, 1961.
Kerr, Russell
Piston Pulitzer the winner speaks.
Musical Courier. 163 (1961), H. 6, S. 5-7.
Berger, Kenneth Walter
Band encyclopedia
Kent, Ohio: Band Associates, 1960, 604 p.
Number of People : 1,633
Edmunds, John
Slonimsky, Nicolas
Boelzner, Gordon
Some twentieth century American composers
A selective biblography
By John Edmunds and Gordon Boelzner
With Introductory Essay by Nicolas Slonimsky
Vol. II
New York: New YOrk Public Library, 1960, 55 p.
Composers of the Americas
Biographical data and catalog of their works
Volume 4
Washington, D.C.: Secretaria General, organizacion de los Estados Americanos, 1958
Grater, Manfred
Konzertfuhrer neue musik
Frankfurt am. Main: Fischer Bucherei, 1958
Prieberg, Fred K.
Lexikon der neuen Musik
Freiburg: K. Alber, 1958, 494 p.
Spaeth, Sigmund
Music journal. 1957 annual
New York: Music Journal Inc, 1957, 176 p.
Austin, William W.
Piston's Fourth Symphony.
The Music Review. 16 (1955), S. 120-137.
Pena, Joaquin
Angles, Higinio
Querol Gavalda, Miguel
Diccionario de la musica labor
Iniciado por Joaquin Pena
Continuado por Higinio Angles
Con la colaboracion de Miguel Querol y otros distinguidos musicologos espanoles y extranjeros
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1954, 2V, 2318P.
Number of People : 7,942
Lyons, James
Howard, John Tasker
Our American music : three hundred years of it
Third edition, revised and reset.
With supplementary chapters by James Lyons
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954, 841 p.
Number of People : 649
Supplementary Chapter One : 1945-1954
A1 In:
Lyons, James
Howard, John Tasker
Our American music : three hundred years of it
Third edition, revised and reset.
With supplementary chapters by James Lyons
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954, 841 p.
Perlman, William J.
Spaeth, Sigmund
Music and dance in the New England states
Sigmund Spaeth, editor-in-chief
William J. Perlman, director & managing editor
New York: Bureau of Musical Research, 1953, 374 p.
Number of People : 511
Goss, Madeleine (Binkley)
Modern music-makers : contemporary American composers
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1952
Mize, J.T.H. / Dr.
The international who is who in music
Fifth (Mid-Century) Edition
Dr. J.T.H. Mize Editor-in-Chief
Chicago: Who is Who in Music, 1951, 576 p.
Number of People : 2,918
Appendix II
p. 148 In:
Millar Craig, D.
Craig, D. Millar
Heimeran, Ernest
Aulich, Bruno
The well-tempered string quartet.
A book of counsel and entertainment for all lovers of music in the home
By Bruno Aulich and Ernest Heimeran
The English Translation by D. Millar Craig
London: Novello, 1951, 154 p.
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sundstrom, Einar
Sohlman's musiklexikon : nordiskt och allmant upplagsverk for tonkonst, musikliv och dans
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl Allan Moberg [och] Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, [1951-]
Number of People : 8,662
Overseas section
p. 315 In:
Pine, L.G.
Who's who in music
First post-war edition (1949-50)
London: Shaw Publishing, 1950, 419 p.
Number of People : 1,023
Ewen, David
The book of modern composers
New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1950
Hutcheson, Ernest
Great orchestral music
A treasury of program notes
Edited by Ernest Hutcheson, President Emeritus of the Julliard School of Music
Vol. V of the series The Field of Music
Reis, Claire Raphael
Composers in America : biographical sketches of contemporary composers with a record of their works
Revised and enlarged edition
New York: MacMillan, 1947, 399 p.
Bagar, Robert C.
Concert companion
A comprehensive guide to symphonic music
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1947], 868 p.
Shrifte, Miriam Lubell
Norman, Gertrude
Letters of composers. an anthology : 1603-1945
Compiled and edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, 422 p.
Bio-bibliographical index of musicians in the United States of America since colonial times
Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration
Washington, DC: 1941, 439 p.
Number of People : 10,576
Barone, J.
Who is who in music
1941 edition
Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1941
Number of People : 3,908
Howard, John Tasker
Mendel, Arthur
Our contemporary composers : American music in the twentieth century
By John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1941, 447 p.
Baker, Theodore
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
Fourth edition revised and enlarged
New York: G. Schirmer, 1940
Number of People : 6,835
Frank, Paul
Altmann, Wilhelm
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon : fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik
Begrundet von Paul Frank
Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann
Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.
Number of People : 17,230
Ewen, David
Composers of Today.
A Comprehensive Biographical and Critical Guide to Modern Composers of All Nations.
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1934, 311 p.
Cowell, Henry
American composers on American music
A symposium
Edited by Henry Cowell
With a new introduction by the editor
California: Stanford University, 1933
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