Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomsonwas an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth25 November 1896
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.