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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 August 1922
- Died
- 1 February 2009
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Lukas
- Family name
- Foss
- Spouse
- Cornelia Foss
- Occupation
- conductor, classical composer, pianist, university teacher, composer, music arranger, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, Arts and Letters Award in Music, Laurel Leaf Award, Ditson Conductor's Award
- archives at
- Library of Congress Music Division
- birth name
- Lukas Fuchs
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- BEIC Digital Library, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers
- employer
- Boston University, University of California, Los Angeles, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- list of works
- list of compositions by Lukas Foss
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Lukas Foss
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Lukas Foss
- start of work period
- 1937
- student of
- Noël Gallon, Lazare Lévy, Felix Wolfes, Serge Koussevitzky, Julius Herford
Connected on Wikidata
Composer of
- Griffelkin
- Recordare
- Symphony No. 4 „Window to the Past”
- Symphony No. 3 „Symphony of Sorrows”
- Symphony No. 2 „Symphony of Chorales”
- Symphony No. 1 in G major
- The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- Each time I hit a town
- It may be the way I was raised (Lulu's song)
- Composer's Holiday
- Three American Pieces
- Baroque Variations
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