Thomas Pasatieri

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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