Vincent Persichetti, American composer, educator and author, studied the piano with Olga Samaroff and composition with Paul Nordoff at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute. In 1941 he was...
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Vincent Persichetti, American composer, educator and author, studied the piano with Olga Samaroff and composition with Paul Nordoff at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute. In 1941 he was appointed to teach at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and in 1947 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School. From 1952 he also served as Editorial Director for Elkan-Vogel. In 1961, Persichetti’s
Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice was published by W.W. Norton and was immediately viewed as the definitive book on modern compositional techniques. Over the course of his career, he received commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisville Philharmonic Society, the Naumberg Foundation, the Samaroff Foundation, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the American Guild of Organists, universities and individual performers.
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