# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dominick-argento
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:55:36.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dominick-argento"
name: "Dominick Argento"
slug: "dominick-argento"
description: "Dominick Argento was an American composer best known for his operatic and choral music. His compositions include the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. His song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. Argento spent most of his time in Minnesota, where he taught at the University of Minnesota. Critics have described his style as blending tonal and atonal elements, sometimes incorporating twelve-tone technique."
tagline: "American composer (1927-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dominick_Argento_in_2016_by_King_Elder_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-10-27"
deathDate: "2019-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump