Lukas Foss

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Lukas Foss (born August 15, 1922 as Lukas Fuchs in Berlin ; † February 1, 2009 in New York City ) was an American composer and conductor of German origin.

Life

Lukas Fuchs - as he was originally called - had to emigrate from Germany with his family in 1933 as a Jew . He received his first musical training in Paris , among others with Noël Gallon , Lazare Levy and Felix Wolfes , before he worked from 1937 to 1940 in the USA at the Curtis Institute of Music and then at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute with Sergei Kussewizki and at Yale University studied with Paul Hindemith . From 1944 he was a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra . From 1950 to 1952 he studied in Rome.

From 1952 to 1962 he was professor and orchestra leader at the University of California in Los Angeles . He then directed the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra and , since 1972, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra . At the same time he was “ Composer in Residence ” at the Manhattan School of Music in New York in 1972/73 . From 1981 to 1986 he was the conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra . In 1989/90 he worked at Tanglewood Music Center and in 1991 became professor at the School for the Arts at Boston University .

In 1962, Foss was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1963 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

In addition to three operas and three ballets , two symphonies , two piano concertos, an oboe, a cello and a clarinet concert, chamber music works, cantatas and songs , Foss also composed numerous experimental works from 1960 onwards.

  • The Prairie , Cantata, 1942
  • The Gift of the Magi , ballet, 1945
  • The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County , opera based on a story by Mark Twain , 1949
  • Griffelkin , Opera, 1955
  • Symphony of Chorals , 1956/58
  • Introductions and Goodbys , Opera, 1959
  • Time Cycle , 1960
  • Echoi for clarinet, cello, percussion and piano, playable in four different versions, 1963
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird , 1978
  • Elytrés for eleven to twenty-two instruments
  • Non-improvisation
  • Paradigm for five musicians who play instruments, whisper, speak and scream
  • Men at Play for four to six players and tape
  • Geod for four orchestral groups
  • Fragments of Archilochus for counter tenor, speaker, four small choirs and one large choir, mandolin, guitar and three percussionists
  • Renaissance Concerto , 1990

literature

  • Brockhaus-Riemann music lexicon . Edited by Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Kurt Oehl. Schott, Mainz 1995, volume 2, p. 73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NYT : Lukas Foss, Composer at Home in Many Stylistic Currents, Dies at 86 , accessed February 2, 2009
  2. ↑ Members: Lukas Foss. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Foss, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Lukas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2009
Place of death Manhattan , New York