PERSICHETTI, VINCENT

(6 June 1915, Philadelphia – 14 August 1987, Philadelphia)

Known chiefly for his abstractinstrumentalconcert works, he also compiled and composedHymnsandResponses{}for the Church Year(Vol. I, 1955; Vol. II, 1987) with texts both modern and traditional, aMagnificatandNunc Dimittis(1940), onemass(1960), aTe Deum(1963), aStabat mater(1963), and a few settings of other Biblical texts.