Dominick Argento

American composer and educator Dominick Argento (1927-2019) was best known for operas and vocal and choral music. His music can be broadly eclectic, with influences ranging from serialism to popular music, but his style is essentially lyrical and harmonically conservative. His most famous work is the surreal opera Postcard from Morocco. Other works include the operas A Water Bird Talk and The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe and the song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize. He spent much of his career teaching at the University of Minnesota.