Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. He also is known for the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf; the latter earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and a lyrical use of twelve-tone writing. None of Argento's music approaches the experimental, stringent avant-garde fashions of the post-World War II era.

27 October 1927

Born on the same birth day (27 October): Barry Supple • Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg • Christine Evangelista • David Hall (horse trainer) • Emperor Ai of Tang • Felix Wurman • Fran Lebowitz • Garry Tallent • Giovanni Giolitti • K. R. Narayanan • Karl Backman • Michel Galabru • Mihkel Mathiesen • Nanette Fabray • Ned Wertimer • Tanel Padar • Vinny Samways

Born in the same month (October 1927): Allan Hendrickse • Anita Kerr • B. S. Abdur Rahman • Bill King • George C. Scott • Gilbert Bécaud • Gunturu Seshendra Sarma • Howard Zieff • Jean-Claude Pascal • Jim Elliot • Jon Locke • Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium • Sherman Glenn Finesilver • Thomas Wilson (composer) • Turgut Özal