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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922
- Works
- 41
Top works
- Studies in improvisation
- קונצרט בונוס
- A parable of death
- Geod
- Fragments of Archilochos
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1922
- Active to
- 2009
Discography
- Time Cycle1961
- Music by Lukas Foss1980
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Chamber Selections1990
- Orchestral Works1994
- Clarinet Concertos1996
- Bernstein Century: Time Cycle / Phorion / Song of Songs1997
- Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank / Song of Anguish / Lammdeni / Beaser: The Heavenly Feast2005
- Complete Symphonies2015
- Symphony no. 1 / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Ode2024
- Night Music for John Lennon2025
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- Listeners
- 5,366
- Total plays
- 23,390
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Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany; died February 1, 2009 in Manhattan) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and professor. He studied with Julius Goldstein. He moved to Paris in 1933 where he studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and flute with Louis Moyse. In 1937 he moved to America and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Sergei Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lukas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- Brooklyn Philharmonic
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Lukas Foss - Southern Campus 1960.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1922-08-15
- date of death
- 2009-02-01
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Lukas Foss
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
- P8168
- Johan Michael Lund
- birth name
- Lukas Fuchs
- name in native language
- Lukas Foss
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
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