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Vincent Persichetti

American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) was, along with William Schuman and Walter Piston, among the most important associates of what is becoming known, somewhat inappropriately, as the American educational school of composition. Blessed in Philadelphia through the First Globe War, Persichetti began monitoring music at age 5, acquiring lessons in …

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