20th century
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Piston Walter
Aitken, Robert
Arnold, Malcolm
Barber, Samuel
Bartók, Béla Viktor János
Beaser, Robert
Bennet, Richard Rodney
Berio, Luciano
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
Bolling, Claude
Boulanger, Marie-Juliette
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Brown, Elizabeth
Brun, Georges
Burton, Eldin
Büsser, Henri
Camus, Pierre
Carter, Elliott
Casella, Alfredo
Clarke, Ian
Colquhoun, Michael
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Damase, Jean-Michel
Davidovsky, Mario
Debussy, Claude
Del Tredici, David
Denisov, Edison
Dick, Robert
Dohnányi, Ernő
Dutilleux, Henri
Enescu, George
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Foote, Arthur
Foss, Lukas
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Gaubert, Philippe
Gieseking, Walter
Gordeli, Otar
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grovlez, Gabriel
Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo
Hanson, Howard Harold
Harsányi, Tibor
Harty, Hamilton
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hosokawa, Toshio
Hovhaness, Alan
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Jacob, Gordon
Jemnitz, Sándor
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Jolivet, André
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kennan, Kent Wheeler
Kornauth, Egon
La Montaine, John
Liebermann, Lowell
Martin, Frank
Martino, Donald
Martinů, Bohuslav
Messiaen, Olivier
Mihalovici, Marcel
Milhaud, Darius
Mouquet, Jules
Mower, Mike
Muczynski, Robert
Nielsen, Carl
Offermans, Wil
Piazzolla, Astor
Piston, Walter
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergey
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Ran, Shulamit
Ravel, Maurice
Reynolds, Verne
Rivier, Jean
Rota, Nino
Roussel, Albert
Rutter, John
Saariaho, Kaija
Sancan, Pierre
Schulhoff, Erwin
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Tailleferre, Germaine
Takemitsu, Tōru
Taktakishvili, Otar
Varèse, Edgar
Vasks, Pēteris
Weigl, Vally
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Yun, Isang
Sonata for Flute and piano
Sonata for Flute and piano
W. Piston: Flute Sonata was written in 1930 and dedicated to Georges Laurent who premiered it in 1931. The work was greatly influenced by his studies of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique which later was applied in his First Symphony (1937) as well.
Anthony Makas (piano)
1. Allegro moderato e con grazia, 2. Adagio, 3. Allegro vivace
Leslie Kinton (piano), 2021
1. Allegro moderato e con grazia, 2. Adagio, 3. Allegro vivace
Piston Walter
Walter Piston (1894 - 1976) was an American composer who initially played violin and piano in dance bands while studying fine arts in high school. When it became inevitable that Walter has to join the army service during World War I, he quickly taught himself saxophone and joined the U.S. Navy as a band musician where he learned to play nearly all wind instruments. After the service he studied music at Harvard College which he graduated with honors and received possibility to advance his compositional studies with Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas in Paris.
Upon his arrival from Europe, he joined Harvard faculty where he taught until his retirement. Among his notable students: Leonard Bernstein and Elliott Carter, to name a few.
Walter Piston is best known for his ballet "The Incredible Flutist", and Symphonies No 3 and No 6 for which he received Pulitzer Prize. Besides composing Walter Piston is known for his four music theory books: "Principles of Harmonic Analysis", "Counterpoint", "Orchestration", and "Harmony".