Dominick Argento was born on October 27, 1927 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. Dominick was a writer and composer, known for Great Performances (1971), Der Bär (1964) and Postcard from Morocco (2019). Dominick was married to Carolyn Bailey. Dominick died on February 20, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for a song cycle called "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf," a setting of eight entries from Woolf's diaries.
After serving in the Army, he studied at the Peabody Institute conservatory in Baltimore on the G.I. Bill. He received a doctorate in musical composition from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
He was an American song-writer and opera composer and librettist. He worked in Minneapolis throughout his career, taught composition at the University of Minnesota, and worked with director Sir Tyrone Guthrie at what became the Guthrie Theater.
The voice is not just another instrument. It's the instrument par excellence, the original instrument, a part of the performer rather than an adjunct to him.