Richard Wilson
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 133
Top works
- A short history of France
- Shakespeare's Twelfth night, or, What you will
- Mountain spirits and maize
- A book of ships and seaman
- Pen Pictures of British Battles
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934-06-09
- Active to
- 1984-01-21
chicago soulclassic souldoo-wopnorthern soulpoppop soul
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 744
- Total plays
- 2,594
Tags
spoken wordamericanacontemporary classicalAvant-Gardealt country
Richard Wilson is the composer of some ninety works in many genres, including opera. He has received such recognition as an Academy Award in Music (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Hinrichsen Award (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Stoeger Prize (from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), the Cleveland Arts Prize (from the Women's City Club of Cleveland), and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent commissions have come from the Koussevitsky and Fromm Found
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Irish Free State
- Place of birth
- County Wicklow
- Occupation
- farmer
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of death
- 1957-02-20
- described at URL
- www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=4&MemberID=1110&ConstID=184
- date of birth
- 1875-00-00
- place of burial
- Glasnevin Cemetery
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