Thomas Pasatieri

Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945 in New York City ) is an American composer.

Pasatieri was a student of Nadia Boulanger and studied from 1962 to 1965 at the Juilliard School of Music , where he taught composition, later at the Manhattan School and at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati . From 1980 to 1984 he was artistic director of the Atlanta Opera . He then moved to Los Angeles , where numerous film scores were made.

He orchestrated the music for more than fifty films and composed the song She Rescues Him Right Back in Pretty Woman . But he was best known as the composer of numerous operas and over four hundred songs .

Works

• The Trysting Place , Opera, 1964
• Flowers of Ice , Opera, 1964
• The Women , Opera, 1965
• La Divina , Opera, 1965
• Padrevía , Opera, 1967
• The Penitentes , Opera, 1967
• Calvary , Opera, 1971
• Selected Songs , 1971
• The Trial of Mary Lincoln , Opera, 1972
• Black Widow , Opera, 1972
• Heloïse And Abelard , 1973
• The Seagull , Opera, 1974
• Inés de Castro , Opera, 1976
• Washington Square , Opera, 1976
• Far From Love , 1976
• Songs Vol.I , 1977
• Three Sisters , Opera, 1978
• Before Breakfast , Opera, 1980
• Songs Vol. II , 1980
• The Goose Girl , Opera, 1981
• Maria Elena , opera, 1983
• Mass for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, choir and orchestra
• Seven Lehmann songs , 1988
• Windsongs , 1989
• Three Mysteries , 1991
• Canciones del barrio , 1993
• Concerto for piano and orchestra , 1993
• Concerto for two pianos and strings , 1994
• Mornings Innocent , 1995
• Three Poems of Oscar Wilde , 1998
• A Rustling of Angels , 2003
• Letter to Warsaw , 2003