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Piston, Walter Hamor, Jr.
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Walter Piston Biography Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessential neo-classic qualities of clarity and proportion. Also a noted educator, Piston taught at Harvard from 1926 to...Biography, select works.
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Classical Net Basic Repertoire List Piston Walter was educated there at the Mechanic Arts High School. He worked as a draftsman for the Boston Elevated Railway, eventually entering the Massachusetts Normal School of Art; meanwhile he had learned enough piano and violin to play pickup engagements....Obituary and dictionary citations.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/dept.../entries/1976/mainindx/0161.html
Music overview, life, and links from the Classical Composers Database.
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=piston
Classical Composers Database entry with musical heritage, instruction, and influences, related composers, teachers, and students. Also biographical details including his general relationship with other American composers.
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Walter Piston Classical Composers Database How would you want me to change this website? Go to the poll to let me know.[music][life][sheet music][recordings][books] Look for Classical MP3 files at eMusic.com Look for sheet music from Piston at SheetMusicPlus.com (Now: String sale 20% off 32,000 titles)...PBS article includes biography, quotes from Leroy Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, compliments on his teaching ability, and mention of his textbooks.
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PBS Leroy Anderson Walter Piston Piston taught him to be objective: The general tendency of a composer is to fall in love with what he does. Piston always advised us to listen to our compositions as though someone else had written them. My biggest disappointment...Mark DeVoto fondly remembers the composer on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Focus is on his clarity of thought as musician, composer, and writer.
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Complete text available from the author It hardly seems possible that Walter Piston would be a century old this year. Or even that it was eighteen years ago that he died. It doesn't even seem thirty-four years ago that he...Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio includes basic biography, notable works, and his academic abilities.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=7132
Classical Music Hall of Fame homage with life story, analysis, influences, and a Real Audio RAM sound clip of Con No.1 for Vn and Orch (1939): III. Allegro con spirito.
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A|C|M|H|F Walter Piston ...Brief biographical sketch, family background, musical education, musical and other highlights, major awards and honors, noted compositions and books, and Naxos discography.
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Composer Piston descended on his father's side from Antonio Pistone, his grandfather, who sailed from Italy and settled in Rockland, Maine. Here the family, to seem more American, dropped the final e from their name. Walter Hamor Piston, Jr was born...Karadar dictionary entry with life, summary of works, influences, and links to related composers.
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- Classical Music Dictionary Free MP3 Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessential neo-classic qualities of clarity and proportion. Also a noted educator, Piston taught at Harvard from 1926 to...