Steve Schwartz asked:

>My goodness!  I thought he had died years and years ago, like in the
>70s or 80s.  Anybody know whether he composed much in his later years?

The <New York Times> obit said, "He stopped composing in the early 1980s.
 [His colleague and friend Elliott] Carter . . . said that for the last
10 years, Mr.  Petrassi was essentially blind."

Nick Jones <[log in to unmask]>