Michael Horvit

Michael Miller Horvit (born June 22, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer.

Horvit trained at Yale University and Boston University and studied with Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Walter Piston,[1] as well as Quincy Porter and Gardner Read.

[2] He was a professor of music theory and composition on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.

[3] He is coauthor, with Thomas Benjamin and Robert Nelson, of Techniques and Materials of Music (2003/2008).

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