Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento dead at 91
NEW YORK (AP) — Dominick Argento, the 1975 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, had died. He was 91.
Argento died Wednesday in Minneapolis, according to Carol Ann Cheung, a spokeswoman for his music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes.
Known for composing in styles ranging from melody to dissonance, he earned the Pulitzer for “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf,” a composition for voice and piano.
He also won a 2003 Grammy Award for best classical contemporary composition for &ldqu
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