Vittorio Giannini
From Wind Repertory Project
Biography
After studying violin at The Juilliard School in New York, American composer and teacher Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966) taught music at Juilliard (1939) and at New York’s Manhattan School of Music (1941). In 1956, he taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Giannini also was the first director of the North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. As a composer, Giannini won three consecutive Prix de Rome. His technique was late romantic style coupled with an Italianate vocal style. In the late 1940s, he moved toward a lighter neo-classical style and his later years were characterized by more intense romanticism marked by greater dissonance and tonal freedom.
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