Field-Of-Study: Music Composition

Janet Maguire

Janet Maguire, born in Chicago and raised in New Rochelle, New York, began musical studies at the age of six, took a B.A. degree with a major in piano at Colorado College, then went to Paris to study composition with René Leibowitz, writing several works in the 12-tone technique.  Several summers at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse introduced

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Quinto Maganini

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1928: Maganini, Quinto: Appointed to compose an epic symphony for grand orchestra on the life and era of Napoleon I, a second sonata for violin and piano, and to work on an opera based on Bret Harte’s “The Bellringer of Angels” (libretto by the composer), principally in France;

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