Chinese name: Thomson
Virginia Thomson
Gender: male
Date of birth and death: 1896-
Country: USA
magnum opus
Works: Three Acts and Four Saints, Our Mother.
Keywords: composer Thomson
Column keywords: composer
Biographical notes
Virgll Thomson (1896-) is an American composer and music critic. 1896165438+1was born in Kansas city, Missouri on October 25th. 19 19 entered Harvard University. 1921-1922 studied under N. boulanger in Paris and got to know the members of the six-person group and E. Sati. 1923 After graduating from Harvard University, he worked as an organist at King's Church in Boston. 1925 went to Paris again, 1940 returned to China. Thomson's creation widely adopts various traditional and modern composition techniques. His early works tended to neoclassicism, and later, influenced by Sadie and others, he turned to simple and clear music style. His most famous works are two operas "Three Acts and Four Saints" (1928) and "Our Mother" (1947), which are adapted from the plays of American woman writer G Stein. His film soundtracks are also widely praised, such as Land to the Tiller (1936) and Rivers (1937). From 1940, Thomson served as a music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, and published works such as Music Scene (1945) and Art of Appreciating Music (1948), which was one of the famous music critics in the United States at that time. 1954 After retiring, he continued to engage in creative and directing work. His important works include three symphonies, cello concerto, the opera Byron and the film soundtrack The Story of Louisiana (won the Pulitzer Prize).
Thomson:
Thomson is a global media giant, headquartered in Canada. Thomson's publishing business is divided into four parts: Thomson Laws and Regulations Publishing Company, Thomson Financial and Professional Publishing Company, Thomson Science and Technology Education Publishing Company and Thomson Learning Company.
Thomson Laws and Regulations Publishing Company is the largest law, tax and accounting publisher in the world, including Westlaw, Sweet &；; Maxwell Thomson co. Thomson, editorial Aranadi, Carswell and American institute 1999 had a sales income of 2.35 billion dollars and a profit of 5.865438 billion dollars. Thomson Financial and Professional Publishing Company provides electronic information services to the global financial community, with sales revenue of199/4.43 million yuan and net profit of $256 million. Thomson Learning Company publishes teaching materials and teaching AIDS, including Peterson, Curriculum Technology, Wadsworth Publishing, Brooks/Cole, Delmar, southwestern college Publishing, Gail Group and other famous companies. 1999, the sales revenue was 74 10/00000 USD, and the net profit reached 1.000. Thomson Science and Technology Education Company publishes various reference books, computer software and database services for scientists to read various versions of materials. 1999 has a sales income of 935 million USD and a net profit of 1.6 1 billion USD.
1978, the company acquired Wadsworth, an American university textbook and vocational training publishing company, to develop the American textbook and information publishing industry; British companies reorganized and established the international Thomson Group with its headquarters in Toronto and branches in Britain and the United States.
1987, the company purchased three law publishing houses in Britain, Canada and Australia: Sweet &; Maxwell, caswell and Law Book Company. From 65438 to 0989, Thomson News Group merged with Thomson International to form Thomson Company. 1994 bought an American reference book and database service company-information utilization company; Acquired Medstat Group, a publisher of American medical information database and decision support software. 1996 bought the famous American law publishing company-western publishing company.
From 65438 to 0999, Thomson Company purchased Aranzadi S.A, the number one law publishing house in Spain, and Macmillan Library Reference Publishing House.