John Corigliano
John Corigliano
John Coriglianois an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 February 1938
CountryUnited States of America
John Corigliano quotes about
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.