Donald Martino was an American composer and teacher whose instrumental and vocal music combined chromatic complexity with a strong lyrical impulse. A lifelong clarinetist, he studied at Syracuse University and at Princeton with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt, then worked with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence on a Fulbright scholarship. He chaired the composition department at the New England Conservatory and later became Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard, teaching there from 1983 to 1993. Notturno earned him the 1974 Pulitzer Prize. His interests also encompassed jazz and Italian opera, and he developed practical teaching tools for composition. With his wife, Lora, he established Dantalian to publish and distribute his music.