Michael Miller Horvit (born June 22, 1932, in

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) is an American composer. Horvit trained at

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and studied with Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and

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, as well as

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and

Gardner Read Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and she also took lessons in coun ...

. He was a professor of music theory and composition on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the

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.Michael Horvit
Milken Archive of Jewish Music. Retrieved 2017-03-12. He is coauthor, with Thomas Benjamin and Robert Nelson, of ''Techniques and Materials of Music'' (2003/2008). Thomson Schirmer. 7th edition. .

Selected works

*Aleinu (Adoration) *Concerto for Brass Quintet and Orchestra *Concerto for Percussion *Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, 'Daughters of Jerusalem' *Invocation and Exultation *Ohiloa la'el *The Cullen Overture

Recordings

*''Horvit: The Cullen Overture and other works'' Albany 2000

References

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