Biographical Sketches

Vittorio Giannini

Composer

Vittorio Giannini was born in Philadelphia in 1903 and died in New York in 1966. He taught at Julliard, the Manhattan School of Music and at the Curtis Institute. Giannini’s compositions include opera, large and small choral works, music for piano, and numerous works for orchestra, including four symphonies.

The Concord Band has performed his Fantasia for Band and also his Symphony No. 3. (WMT)

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