Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss · Arts & Literature
Composer, conductor and pianist
1922, Berlin, Germany — 2009, New York City, USA
Germany · United States
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Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor and pianist whose wide-ranging output moved from neoclassicism to improvisation and the avant-garde, and who led orchestras including the Buffalo Philharmonic and Milwaukee Symphony. A child prodigy, he emigrated as his family fled Nazi Germany. He was Jewish, born in Berlin.
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Composer, conductor and pianist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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