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Concurrent with these early activities, Persichetti was a student in the Philadelphia public schools and received a thorough musical education at the Combs College of Music, where he earned a Mus. B. degree in 1935 under Russel King Miller, his principal composition teacher. From the age of 20, he was simultaneously head of the theory and composition departments at the Combs College, a conducting major with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute and piano major with Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory, in addition to studying composition with a number of important American composers. He received a Diploma in Conducting from the Curtis Institute and Mus. M. and Mus. D. degrees from the Philadelphia Conservatory.
In 1941 Persichetti was appointed head of the theory and composition departments at the Philadelphia Conservatory and in the same year married pianist Dorothea Flanagan. A daughter Lauren, was born in 1944 and a son, Garth, in 1946. In 1947 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music, assuming chairmanship of the Composition Department in 19
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was born on June 6, 1915. As a child, Persichetti was raised in South Philadelphia in an Italian neighborhood. Although Persichetti's parents, Martha Catherine Buch and Vincent Roger Persichetti, were not musicians themselves, they nurtured their son's desire to begin a career in the performance and study of music. As a child of two years, Vincent Persichetti requested to begin taking piano lessons. When Vincent Persichetti was four years old, his family moved to South Broad Street in Philadelphia. An explorer of the world of music, Persichetti soon realized that Mr. Combs, the founder of the Combs Conservatory of Music, only lived six houses down the road. Thus, as a result of their close proximity, the young, ambitious child would constantly visit and question the musical maestro on his knowledge of music. Persichetti began his study of performing, on the piano, at age five, under the instruction of William Stanger. As a musician, Persichetti also became a competent performer with the organ and the tuba. In 1921, at only six years of age, Persichetti m
Vincent PersichettiAmerican composer and teacher (1915–1987)
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School. His students at Juilliard included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Larry Thomas Bell, Bruce Adolphe, Louis Calabro, Moshe Cotel, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Laurie Spiegel, Kenneth Fuchs, Richard Danielpour, Lawrence Dillon, Peter Schickele, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Witt, Elena Ruehr, William Schimmel, Leonardo Balada, Gitta Steiner, Hank Beebe, Roland Wiggins, Thomas Pasatieri,[1] Randell Croley and Leo Brouwer. He also taught Copyright ©airtory.pages.dev 2025 | |||||||||||