Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Italian Lesson
- Summer and smoke
- Beatrice
- Natalia Petrovna
- Ciaconetta for viola and piano
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-02-17
- Active to
- 2011-03-28
Discography
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- Listeners
- 499
- Total plays
- 2,193
Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti.[1] Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism during a time when such compositions were deemed old fashioned and irrelevant to modern society.[2] His most well known work is his setting of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke which premiered at the St Paul Opera in 1971. [3] www.leehoiby.com
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Madison
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1926-02-17
- date of death
- 2011-03-28
- cause of death
- melanoma
- manner of death
- natural causes
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