Mourant, Walter
(1910–1995)
Mourant, Walter. Chicago, Illinois, 29 August 1910 – San Luis Obispo, California, May 1995 Mourant studied at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers (1931–34), and with Bernard Wagenaar at the Juilliard School in New York City (1934–35). Mourant was a composer of a number of attractive orchestral works, generally on a small scale. The best known of these, the Sleepy Hollow Suite for strings and harp, was written in 1955. Dating from the same year…