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Name
  
Leslie Bassett


Role
  
Composer

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Books
  
Manual of sixteenth-century counterpoint

Education
  
University of Michigan (1952–1956), Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Leslie bassett


Leslie Bassett (January 22, 1923 – February 4, 2016) was an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan's Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Variations for Orchestra.

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He studied composition with Homer Keller at the University of Michigan.

He was a member of the Gamma Pi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at California State University-Fresno, 1942.

Bassett died at the age of 93 on February 4, 2016, at his home in Flowery Branch, Georgia.

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References

Leslie Bassett Wikipedia


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