- Walter Piston - http://www.schirmer.com/composers/piston_bio.html
Biography, key works, selected discography, links.
- Walter Piston - http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=piston
Music overview, life, and links from the Classical Composers Database.
- Walter Piston - http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=piston
Classical Composers Database entry with musical heritage, instruction, and influences, related composers, teachers, and students. Also biographical details including his general relationship with other American composers.
- Walter Piston - http://www.pbs.org/sleighride/Biography/Walter_Piston.htm
PBS article includes biography, quotes from Leroy Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, compliments on his teaching ability, and mention of his textbooks.
- Walter Piston, Practical Theorist - http://www.tufts.edu/~mdevoto/piston.html
Mark DeVoto fondly remembers the composer on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Focus is on his clarity of thought as musician, composer, and writer.
- Piston, Walter Hamor - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=7132
Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio includes basic biography, notable works, and his academic abilities.
- Walter Piston - http://www.americanclassicalmusic.org/03/inductees/piston/index.html
Classical Music Hall of Fame homage with life story, analysis, influences, and a Real Audio RAM sound clip of Con No.1 for Vn and Orch (1939): III. Allegro con spirito.
- Walter Piston (1894-1976) - http://www.naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Piston,%20Walter
Brief biographical sketch, family background, musical education, musical and other highlights, major awards and honors, noted compositions and books, and Naxos discography.
- Walter Piston (1894-1976) - http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/piston.html
Karadar dictionary entry with life, summary of works, influences, and links to related composers.
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