Background
Flagello was born in New York City, into a very musical family.
composer conductor musicologist pianist
Flagello was born in New York City, into a very musical family.
Manhattan School of Music.
In 1955, he went on to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he studied with Ildebrando Pizzetti. His music was first recorded in the early 1960s, and he produced a large body of work, reaching the height of his fame with his oratorio, The Passion of Martin Luther King (1968), premiered in 1974. In the mid-1980s, his career was cut short by a degenerative disease.
He died in New Rochelle, New York, on March 16, 1994.