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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Piston |
 | | Walter Piston, the grandson of an Italian seaman (the original family name was Pistone), was born in Maine in 1894. |
 | | Piston returned to America in 1926 and was appointed to the faculty of Harvard, where he remained until 1960, composing, teaching, and writing. |
 | | Piston's music is beautifully crafted and technically assured, qualities which, combined with his reputation as a pedagogue, have occasionally given the mistaken impression (as is also true of Hindemith) that he is little more than a conservative, dry, academic composer. |
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