Leo Sowerby
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American composer and church musician (1895-1968)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1895-05-01
- Active to
- 1968-07-07
Discography
- Catharine Crozier Plays Organ Music of Leo Sowerby1989
- Piano Works1992
- Great European Organs, No. 50: Hans-Otto Jakob Plays the Klais Organ of Frankfurt Imperial Cathedral1997
- Prairie: Tone Poems by Leo Sowerby1997
- Symphony no. 2 / Passacaglia, Interlude & Fugue / Concert Overture / All on a Summer’s Day1998
- Works for Organ and Orchestra1999
- American Works for Organ and Orchestra2002
- The Pulitzer Project: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Works by Schuman, Sowerby & Copland2011
- Selected Works for Solo and Duo Piano2019
- Organ Music by Frank Ferko & Leo Sowerby2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,550
- Total plays
- 5,975
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Leo Sowerby (May 1, 1895–July 7, 1968), American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century. Sowerby was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he began to compose at the age of ten. His violin concerto was premiered in 1913 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1921 he was awarded the Prix de Rome (from the American Academy in Rome), the first composer to receive
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Random Forests
· 2001 · cited 116,178x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,572x
- Bagging predictors
· 1996 · cited 13,154x
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