Vittorio Giannini

Vittorio Giannini (October 19, 1903 – November 28, 1966) was an neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.

Selected works

• Stabat mater (1922), SATB and orchestra
• "Tell Me, O Blue, Blue Sky" (1927), voice/piano
• String Quartet (1930)
• Suite (1931), orchestra
• Lucedia (1934), opera, libretto K. Flaster
• Piano Concerto (1935)
• Symphony ?In memoriam Theodore Roosevelt? (1935)
• Organ Concerto (1937)
• Triptych (1937), soprano choir and strings
• Requiem (1937), choir and orchestra
• The Scarlet Letter (1938), opera, libretto Flaster after N. Hawthorne
• Sonata no. 1 (1940), violin and piano
• "Sing to My Heart a Song" (c. 1942), voice/piano
• Sonata no. 2 (1944), violin and piano
• Variations on a Cantus firmus (1947), piano
• The Taming of the Shrew (1950), opera, libretto by Giannini and D. Fee after Shakespeare
• Symphony no. 1 ?Sinfonia? (1950)
• Divertimento no. 1 (1953), orchestra
• Prelude and Fugue (1955), string orchestra
• Preludium and Allegro (1958), symphonic band
• Symphony no. 3 (1958), symphonic band
• The Medead (1960), soprano voices and orchestra
• The Harvest (1961), opera, libretto Flaster
• Divertimento no. 2 (1961), orchestra
• Antigone (1962), soprano voices and orchestra
• Psalm cxxx (1963), bass/cello and orchestra
• Variations and Fugue (1964), symphonic band
• Symphony no. 5 (1965)
• Servant of Two Masters (1966), opera, libretto B. Stambler, after C. Goldoni