PERSICHETTI, VINCENT
(*1915)
VINCENT PERSICHETTI (Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1915) Vincent Persichetti studied composition with Paul Nurdoff and Roy Harris and conducting with Fritz Reiner. He is a graduate of Combs College, Philadelphia Conservatory, and the Curtis Institute. Persichetti was head of the department of composition at the Philadelphia Conservatory from 1941 to 1947, and in 1947 joined the staff of the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he is presently the head of the composition…