Morten lauridsen biography of alberta
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Morten Lauridsen
Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, ) is an Americancomposer. He was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (–) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 30 years.
Biography
Lauridsen was born February 27, , in Colfax, Washington in a family of migrants from Denmark.
Morten lauridsen biography of alberta
He was raised in Portland, Oregon, where his mother worked as a bookkeeper and his father was with the United States Forest Service. His mother was a pianist who had played in her high school dance band, and Lauridsen developed a love for music at an early age, by listening to her play swing jazz and singing to him.
At age eight he started playing the piano, and a couple of years later learned to play the trumpet. He studied composition with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen at the University of Southern California in the s.
Compositions
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