Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was an American composer and critic from Kansas City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and lived in Paris from 1925. His opera Four Saints in Three Acts, to a libretto by Gertrude Stein, premiered in 1934. He was music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954 and won a Pulitzer Prize for his score to the film Louisiana Story. He also wrote many short musical portraits of friends.