Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the American Sound in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoclassicist, a composer of an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment whose expressive voice was always carefully muted until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to moments of real passion, and a neoromantic.
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