Yehoshua Lakner Explained

Yehoshua Lakner
Native Name:	יהושוע לקנר
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Date:	24 April 1924
Birth Place:	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:	Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation:	Composer
Nationality:	Israel Switzerland
Education:	Studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood
Awards:	Engel Prize of the city of Tel-Aviv (1958) Salomon David Steinberg Foundation City of Zurich Sabbatical year for composition (1987)
Module:	Embed: yes Genre: Contemporary classical

Yehoshua Lakner (b. Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 24 April 1924; d. Zürich, Switzerland, 5 December 2003) (Hebrew: יהושוע לקנר) 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)^[1]
• Salomon David Steinberg Foundation^[1]
• City of Zurich Sabbatical year for composition (1987)^[1]

External links

• Yehoshua Lakner official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swiss Music Edition . 2007-11-29 . 2018-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180904184301/http://www.musicedition.ch/sme/index_e.htm . dead .