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Bookmark or Share- Lukas Foss - WikipediaLukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with Julius Goldstein [Herford] in Berlin at the age of six.
- Composer, Conductor Lukas Foss Dies At 86 - NPRComposer, conductor and pianist Lukas Foss, who died Feb. 1 after suffering a heart attack in his New York City apartment, was widely admired for his adventurous spirit and keen wit.
- Lukas Foss - Nils VigelandOne hears Foss confronting two opposing aesthetics in American music of the time-the diatonic, motoric minimalism of Reich and Glass and the rhymically jagged chromaticism of Carter and Wuorinen. The music is motoric, but it is extremely dissonant, the two aesthetics cross-pollinating.
- Lukas Foss, versatile and prolific American composer, dies at ...Lukas Foss, the polyglot American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, led marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as...
- List of compositions by Lukas Foss - WikipediaThe early works of Lukas Foss are neoclassical in style, using controlled improvisation and chance procedures with the twelve-tone technique and serialism, while his later works are polystylistic. Foss's solo piano music forms a relatively small part of his compositional output.
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