Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction
by Eric Salzman
Period: Early 20th
Century
Born: Friday, July 7, 1911 in Cadegliano, Italy
As of May 2005 this composer is still living.
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Nation of Origin: Italy
Major Works:
Operas:
The Consul
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Other Information:
Menotti won the Pulizter Prize for his opera The Consul in
1950.
Menotti won the Pulizter Prize for The Saint of Bleeker
Street in 1955.
For a complete biography of Menotti, see the link to the Schirmer
site below.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900,
Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
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Biographical essay at the Karadar site
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Biography at the Schirmer site
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