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Vittorio Giannini

Biography

Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works. His main influences were the composers of the late Romantic period: particularly Puccini and Wagner. As Giannini's style developed it grew in intensity and tonality, exploring dissonance without succumbing to modernism. After teaching at Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, and Curtis Institute of Music, Giannini founded the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1965, which he envisioned as a Juilliard of the South.