Harvard Composers

Harvard Composers

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Book Description
Walter Piston (1894-1976) taught for over thirty years (1926-1960) at Harvard, where he taught such well-known composers as Harold Shapiro and Leonard Bernstein. The biographies, major accomplishments, stylistic developments, and technical resources of 33 of his students are described.

About the Author
Howard Pollack, a musicologist and pianist (BM, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Cornell), teaches at the University of Houston. His publications include the biographies "Walter Piston" (UMI, 1982) and "John Alden Carpenter" (Smithsonian, forthcoming) and numerous articles and reviews. He is also co-editor of a collection of essays on German music and literature of the 20th century, "An Aesthetic Fusion" (Fink, forthcoming).

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