David Del Tredici

David Del Tredici (1937-2023) was an American composer, born in Cloverdale, California, who died in New York. He began as a pianist, turned to composition after a 1958 seminar with Darius Milhaud at Aspen, and wrote his early works in a dissonant idiom, several of them on texts by James Joyce. From the late 1960s he set Lewis Carroll's Alice books in a long series of large tonal works, and he won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for In Memory of a Summer Day, part of Child Alice.