About Yehoshua Lakner
Lived 1924 – 2003 (aged 79). Yehoshua Lakner was a Swiss and Israeli composer and university teacher.
Yehoshua Lakner (; b. Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 24 April 1924; d. Zürich, Switzerland, 5 December 2003) was a composer of contemporary classical music. He settled in Palestine in 1941 and relocated to Zürich in 1963.
He studied with the American composer Aaron Copland at Tanglewood in 1952.
Awards Engel Prize of the city of Tel-Aviv (1958) Salomon David Steinberg Foundation City of Zurich Sabbatical year for composition (1987)
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Israeli composer (1924-2003)
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Yehoshua Lakner was born on 24 April 1924 in Bratislava.
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Yehoshua Lakner died on 5 December 2003 in Zurich.
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Yehoshua Lakner was a composer and university teacher.
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Yehoshua Lakner was Swiss and Israeli.
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