Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss (born August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American composer and conductor. He studied with Julius Goldstein. He moved to Paris in 1933 where he studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and flute with Louis Moyse. In 1937 he moved to America and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Sergei Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center, and, as a special student, composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale from 1939 to 1940.

External links

• All Music Guide: Lukas Foss
• Humanities Web: Lukas Foss Index
• CDeMusic: Lukas Foss
• New Albion Artists: Lukas Foss
• Lukas Foss Lecture A Twentieth-Century Composer's Confessions about the Creative Process

Listening

• Art of the States: Lukas Foss
• Lukas Foss interview from American Mavericks site