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Walter Piston
1894-1976 US, Rockland, Maine
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Walter Hamor Piston Jr.
American composer and music theorist. After graduation from the Massachusetts School Of Art in 1914, his interest shifted from painting to music. In 1924, upon graduating from Harvard, he went abroad to study with Nadia Boulanger. He was Professor Of Music at Harvard and lived in Belmont, Massachusetts. Born : January 20, 1894 in Rockland, Maine. Died : November 12, 1976 in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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The Incredible Flutist Suite: IX. Spanish Waltz on Copland, Creston & Others: Orchestral Works by Anna Mattix, Timothy McAllister, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic & Joann Falletta The Incredible Flutist: Introduction - Siesta in the Market Place on Piston: The Incredible Flutist / Fantasy for English Horn, Harp and Strings by Walter Piston & Gerard Schwarz Quintet for Wind Instruments: I. Animato on Thuille - Dvořák - Telemann - Reicha - Piston - Rimsky-Korsakov - Janáček by Eric Simon, The Boston Woodwind Ensemble & The Boston Brass Ensemble Quintet for Wind Instruments: III. Scherzando on Thuille - Dvořák - Telemann - Reicha - Piston - Rimsky-Korsakov - Janáček by Eric Simon, The Boston Woodwind Ensemble & The Boston Brass Ensemble Quintet for Wind Instruments: II. Con tenerezza on Thuille - Dvořák - Telemann - Reicha - Piston - Rimsky-Korsakov - Janáček by Eric Simon, The Boston Woodwind Ensemble & The Boston Brass Ensemble Quintet for Wind Instruments: IV. Allegro comodo on Thuille - Dvořák - Telemann - Reicha - Piston - Rimsky-Korsakov - Janáček by Eric Simon, The Boston Woodwind Ensemble & The Boston Brass Ensemble The Incredible Flutist Suite: XI. Polka Finale on Copland, Creston & Others: Orchestral Works by Anna Mattix, Timothy McAllister, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic & Joann Falletta The Incredible Flutist: Spanish Waltz on Piston: The Incredible Flutist / Fantasy for English Horn, Harp and Strings by Walter Piston & Gerard Schwarz Symphony No. 7: I. Con moto (Live) on Aspects of America: Pulitzer Edition by Oregon Symphony & Carlos Kalmar Symphony No. 4: Piacevole on Piston: Symphony No. 4 / Three New England Sketches by Walter Piston & Gerard SchwarzTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Symphonies | The London Symphony Orchestra, Lance Friedel, Walter Piston, Samuel Jones, Stephen Albert | 2018 | Album |
| Koussevitzky - Bartók & Piston Premières (1944/48) | Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Béla Bartók, Walter Piston | 2016 | Album |
| Music For Clarinet and Orchestra | Brett Dean • Witold Lutoslawski • Walter Piston • John Veale • Nigel Sabin, Paul Dean, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills | 2013 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 And 5 | Walter Piston, Harlem Quartet, Ilmar Gavilán, Melissa White, Juan Miguel Hernandez, Desmond Neysmith | 2010 | Album |
| Symphonies | Roy Harris • Walter Piston • William Schuman, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 2010 | Album |
| Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks | Howard Hanson Conducts: Samuel Barber • Walter Piston • George Whitefield Chadwick • Charles Ives • Edward MacDowell • Morton Gould • William Schuman • Peter Mennin • Douglas Moore • Charles Griffes ‒ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 2004 | Compil. |
| American Viola Concertos | Walter Piston, John Harbison, Samuel Adler / Randolph Kelly, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Aleksandrs Viļumanis | 2003 | Album |
| American Works For Organ And Orchestra | David Schrader, Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar - Samuel Barber, Walter Piston, Leo Sowerby, Michael Colgrass | 2002 | Album |
| Shapey • Riegger • Piston • Crumb • Sollberger • Berger | Paul Zukofsky / Ralph Shapey • Wallingford Riegger • Walter Piston • George Crumb • Harvey Sollberger • Arthur Berger | 2002 | Album |
| Three Places in New England / Sun-Treader / Symphony No.2 | Charles Ives / Carl Ruggles / Walter Piston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas | 2001 | Compil. |
| Concerto for String Quartet; Symphony No. 3 | James Yannatos, Walter Piston / Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 2000 | Album |
| Walter Piston | Walter Piston | 2000 | Compil. |
| American Masters 2 | Walter Piston, Marc Blitzstein, Edward Burlingame Hill, Orson Welles, The Choral Art Society, Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 2000 | Album |
| Chamber Music (1999 Australian Festival Of Chamber Music) | Walter Piston | 2000 | Album |
| Concerto For Violin And Orchestra (Virtuoso Works For Violin And Piano) | Walter Piston - Hugo Kolberg, Felix Schröder, Berliner Symphoniker Conducted By Otto Matzerath | 1999 | Album |
| Violin Concertos Nos. 1 And 2 • Fantasia For Violin And Orchestra | Walter Piston, James Buswell, National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar | 1999 | Album |
| American Music For Two Pianos And Orchestra | Walter Piston • Quincy Porter • Morton Gould -- Joshua Pierce & Dorothy Jonas - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra • The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra / David Amos | 1999 | Album |
| Orchestral Works (American Archives Series) | Robert Kurka, Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney, Janos Starker | 1998 | Album |
| Symphonies | Walter Piston, Roy Harris, William Schuman, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy | 1997 | Compil. |
| American Concertos | Benjamin Lees, Robert Starer, Meyer Kupferman, Michael Colgrass, Lou Harrison, Walter Piston, William Bergsma | 1995 | Compil. |
| Variations for Cello and Orchestra / Concert for Cello and Orchestra / Schelomo | Walter Piston, Lukas Foss, Ernest Bloch, Mstislav Rostropovich | 1993 | Compil. |
| Violin Sonatas | Aaron Copland / Walter Piston / Quincy Porter | 1993 | Album |
| The Incredible Walter Piston | Walter Piston, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, Juilliard String Quartet | 1993 | Album |
| Symphony No. 4 • Capriccio For Harp And String Orchestra • Serenata For Orchestra • Three New England Sketches • | Walter Piston, Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony | 1992 | Album |
| Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Flute | Doriot Anthony Dwyer - Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein - The London Symphony Orchestra / James Sedares | 1992 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 | Walter Piston | 1991 | Album |
| Suite From The Ballet The Incredible Flutist | Walter Piston, The Boston Pops Orchestra | 1991 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6, The Incredible Flutist, 3 New England Sketches | Walter Piston, Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | 1991 | Album |
| American Winds Volume 1 | Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Irving Fine, Elie Siegmeister, Vincent Persichetti Performed by The Boehm Quintette | 1990 | Album |
| Gould / Piston / Copland | Morton Gould, Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, Joshua Pierce, Dorothy Jonas, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, David Amos | 1990 | Album |
| Symphonies Nos. 2 And 6 / Sinfonietta | Walter Piston, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, New York Chamber Symphony | 1990 | Album |
| Ruggles: Sun-treader, Piston: Symphony No. 2, Schuman: Violin Concerto | Carl Ruggles / William Schuman / Walter Piston, Paul Zukofsky • Boston Symphony Orchestra • Michael Tilson Thomas | 1990 | Compil. |
| Violin Concerto No.1 / Violin Sonata And Other American Works For Violin | Louis Kaufman / Walter Piston / Aaron Copland | 1990 | Compil. |
| Two American Ballets | Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Hershy Kay, Walter Piston / The Louisville Orchestra | 1989 | Compil. |
| Symphony No. 5 - Symphony No. 7 - Symphony No. 8 | Walter Piston, The Louisville Orchestra | 1988 | Compil. |
| The Moscow Sessions | Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Glazunov, Walter Piston, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives | 1987 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet No. 4 | Walter Piston - The Portland String Quartet | 1984 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 5 / Quintet For Flute And String Quartet | Walter Piston - The Portland String Quartet, Doriot Anthony Dwyer | 1982 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 / Fantasies Symphoniques | Walter Piston / Bohuslav Martinů - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch | 1980 | Album |
| When Johnny Comes Marching Home Overture / Symphonic Ode / Symphony No. 1 | Roy Harris / John Weinzweig / Walter Piston - The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester | 1979 | Album |
| Flute Music (Romeo And Juliet / Sonata / Suite) | Ned Rorem / Walter Piston / Jean Françaix - Ingrid Dingfelder | 1978 | Album |
| The Koussevitzky Legacy (The Double Bass Concerto / Concerto For String Quartet, Wind Instruments And Percussion / Hymn And Fuguing Tune No. 2) | Serge Koussevitzky / Walter Piston / Henry Cowell | 1978 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6, Piano Concerto No. 1 | Walter Piston, Leon Kirchner, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos | 1977 | Album |
| Dance Symphony / Suite From The Ballet "The Incredible Flutist" | Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, MIT Symphony Orchestra, David Epstein | 1977 | Album |
| Symphony No. 7 / Symphony No. 8 | Walter Piston / The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester | 1975 | Album |
| Quintet For Wind Instruments / Consort For Winds | Walter Piston / Ben Weber - The Boehm Quintette | 1975 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 2 | William Schuman / Walter Piston - Paul Zukofsky, Boston Symphony Orchestra • Michael Tilson Thomas | 1971 | Album |
| Concerto For Orchestra / Men And Mountains / Short Symphony / Icarus | Walter Piston / Carl Ruggles / Howard Swanson / Wells Hively | 1969 | Album |
| Fantasia / Vitebsk / Woodwind Quintet / Divertimento | Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, Boston Symphony Chamber Players | 1967 | Album |
| Twentieth Century Sonatas | Walter Piston, Bohuslav Martinů, Paul Reif, Albert Roussel, Julius Baker, Anthony Makas | 1967 | Album |
| Quintet For Piano & Strings / Khaldis: Concerto For Piano, Four Trumpets & Percussion | Walter Piston / Alan Hovhaness | 1966 | Compil. |
| The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple Fugue | Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1965 | Album |
| Symphony No. 5 / Concerto Grosso | Walter Piston / William Kraft - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
| Porter: Concerto For Viola And Orchestra / Piston: Symphony No. 2 | Quincy Porter, Walter Piston / Wiener Symphoniker | 1965 | Album |
| Concerto For Viola And Orchestra / Symphony No. 2 In One Movement | Walter Piston, Hall Overton, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1963 | Album |
| Quintet For Wind Instruments (1954) / Three Pieces For Flute, Clarinet And Bassoon (1925) / Pentagram For Winds (1957) | Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet, Joseph Goodman, Walter Piston, Ernst Krenek | 1963 | Album |
| Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible Flutist | Walter Piston, Douglas Moore, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1959 | Album |
| Symphony No. 6 / Fantasies Symphoniques | Walter Piston / Bohuslav Martinů - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch | 1957 | Album |
| Schuman: Symphony No. 6 / Piston: Symphony No. 4 | The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / William Schuman, Walter Piston | 1955 | Album |
| Ballet Suites: The Incredible Flutist / Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland, Artur Rother, Walter Piston, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 1953 | Album |
| Modern American Music Series | Walter Piston / John Cage | 1953 | Album |
| Quintet For Piano And String Quartet / String Quartet No. 6 | Walter Piston, Bohuslav Martinů, The Walden String Quartet, Earl Wild | 1953 | Album |
| A Concert Of American Music In Schönbrunn | Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson | 1952 | Album |
| Wayne Rapier Plays Oboe | Wayne Rapier With John Perry, Georg Philipp Telemann, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Sir Eugene Goossens, Walter Piston, Johann Sebastian Bach | Album | |
| Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible Flutist | George Whitefield Chadwick, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson | Album | |
| Symphony #2 | Walter Piston / American Recording Society Orchestra, Dean Dixon | Album | |
| The Ballet | Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Walter Piston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Charles Munch, James Pappoutsakis, Arthur Fiedler | Album | |
| Henry Cowell Symphony No.5, Walter Piston Symphony No.2 | Henry Cowell, Walter Piston | Album | |
| Piston: Concertino / Ives: Fourth Of July / Carpenter: Concertino | Walter Piston / Charles Ives / John Alden Carpenter | Album | |
| Симфонические Метаморфозы Тем Вебера / 6-я Симфония Ре Минор | Paul Hindemith / Walter Piston | Album | |
| Piston: Symphony No. 3 / Hanson: Symphony No. 4 | Walter Piston / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
| The Glass Bead Game; A Movement For Orchestra; Ricercare | The Louisville Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, Claude Baker, Robert Bernhardt, John B. Foley, Walter Piston, James R. Rightmyer | Album | |
| Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 | John Philip Sousa, Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Ferde Grofé, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Leroy Anderson | Compil. |
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