Walter Piston

Walter Piston — Walter Piston studied at Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. training under Nadia Boulanger is recorded. Leroy Anderson, Roslyn Brogue and Eda Rapoport are recorded as having studied under Walter Piston. the recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are symphony. Employment is recorded with Harvard University. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Officer of Arts and Letters. The heading is also recorded as Walter Hamor Piston and Walter Hamor Piston Jr. Walter Piston is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q711052. Walter Piston died in 1976 at Belmont. The record continues: walter Piston is recorded with the citizenship of United States. Institutional cataloguing adds that walter Piston is recorded as pianist, composer, choreographer, musicologist and conductor.

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Identity and overview

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Walter Piston is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q711052. Institutional cataloguing adds that walter Piston is recorded with the citizenship of United States.

Works and production

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.

Wikidata Query Service catalogues 24 works under this heading. Trio no. 1 for piano and strings is dated 1935.

Reception and standing

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Walter Piston is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Officer of Arts and Letters. Institutional cataloguing adds that dataCite Commons publishes 22 deposited research records for this heading.

Sources and evidence

This entry is compiled from 5 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Wikimedia Foundation, DataCite, National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive and Wikipedia. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

In detail

Walter Piston studied at Harvard University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. training under Nadia Boulanger is recorded. Leroy Anderson, Roslyn Brogue and Eda Rapoport are recorded as having studied under Walter Piston. the recorded working language is English.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are symphony.

Employment is recorded with Harvard University. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Officer of Arts and Letters.

Sources

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    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “Walter Piston”

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    Open Library, catalogue records for “Walter Piston”

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    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “Walter Piston”

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    Wikidata, structured authority record Q711052: Walter Piston

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    “Walter Piston”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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