Nicolas Flagello

Nicolas Flagello (March 15, 1928 – March 16, 1994), was an American composer of classical music.

Flagello was born in New York City, into a very musical family. His brother Ezio Flagello was a bass who sang at the Metropolitan Opera. One of his first music teachers was the composer Vittorio Giannini, and he then studied at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1955, he went on to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he studied with Ildebrando Pizzetti. His music was first recorded in the early 1960s, and he produced a large body of work, reaching the height of his fame with his oratorio, The Passion of Martin Luther King (1968), premiered in 1974. In the mid-1980s, his career was cut short by a degenerative disease. He died in New Rochelle, N.Y. on March 16, 1994.

External links

• "Flagello website - has a complete list of Flagello's works". http://www.flagello.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.  includes an online order form, a more extensive biography, CDs of his music, and critics' comments.

References

• "Nicolas Flagello, 66, American Composer" New York Times (March 17, 1994)

Bibliography

• Simmons, Walter (2006). Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, Inc.. ISBN 978-0-8108-5728-6. OCLC 52514328. http://books.google.com/books?id=yOWB3j8p2WsC&pg=PR2&dq=isbn+0-8108-4884-8&ei=scxbScfbHouiyAS3xqmCDA.