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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. Career. 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.
- Lukas Foss | 20th-century classical, avant-garde, orchestral - BritannicaLukas Foss (born Aug. 15, 1922, Berlin, Ger.—died Feb. 1, 2009, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a German-born U.S. composer, pianist, and conductor, widely recognized for his experiments with improvisation and aleatory music.
- Lukas Foss, Composer at Home in Many Stylistic Currents, Dies at 86Lukas Foss, a prolific and versatile composer who was also a respected pianist and conductor, died at his home in Manhattan on Sunday. He was 86, and also had a home in...
- Lukas Foss, Baroque Variations - American Symphony OrchestraA decade before John Cage hit on subtraction as a compositional device, Lukas Foss was busy erasing notes from a Handel piece to create the first movement of Baroque Variations. The unsuspecting listener might think he or she is confronted by an orchestral malfunction.
- LUKAS FOSS: COMPLETE SYMPHONIES - Boston Modern Orchestra ProjectFoss titled the symphony “Window to the Past,” and filled the score with quotations of his music from the 40s and 50s. Where the Symphony No. 3, with its sharp contrasts of vocabulary and scope, evokes collective memory—epochs and rubicons—the Symphony No. 4 is a taxonomy of individual memory.
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