• Leo Salkeld Sowerby (1 May 1895 – 7 July 1968) was an American composer and church musician. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946 and was often...
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  • Barbuda sprinter Githa Sowerby (1876–1970), English playwright Leo Sowerby (1895–1968), twentieth-century American composer William Sowerby (clergyman) (1799–1875)...
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  • The following is a list of compositions by Leo Sowerby. A Liturgy of Hope (selections from the Psalms) (1917) The Vision of Sir Launfal (poem of James...
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    and orchestra, 1928) Paul Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione (ballet 1938) Leo Sowerby: Canticle of the Sun (cantata for mixed voices with accompaniment for...
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  • An organ symphony is a piece for solo pipe organ in various movements. It is a symphonic genre, not so much in musical form (in which it is more similar...
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    Christmas carol by many composers including R O Morris, Harold Darke, Leo Sowerby, John Kelsall and John Rutter and is also sung to the traditional Irish...
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    Rorem found an early interest in music, studying with Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby. He developed a strong enthusiasm for French music and received mentorship...
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  • Morton Gould, Jan. 22, 1943. (Recorded.)[vague] 11. Fanfare for Airmen, Leo Sowerby, Jan. 29, 1943. (Recorded.)[vague] 12. Fanfare for Poland, Harl McDonald...
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    (The Instruments of Peace III), for two guitars Leo Sowerby: Chaconne, for tuba and piano (1938) Leo Sowerby: Canon, Chacony, & Fugue for organ (1948) David...
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    Vaughan Williams (Passacaglia on B–G–C, 1933), George Frideric Handel and Leo Sowerby. Passacaglias for lute have been composed by figures such as Alessandro...
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  • Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Leo Sowerby". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Jul. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Sowerby . Accessed 4 February 2024...
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    Wesley Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman administration Leo Sowerby (ashes), composer, church musician Anne Sullivan (ashes), tutor and companion...
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    No. 4, Requiem 1945: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, ballet 1946: Leo Sowerby, The Canticle of the Sun 1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3 1948: Walter...
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  • Comes Autumn Time (category Compositions by Leo Sowerby)
    Comes Autumn Time is a concert overture by Leo Sowerby. Originally composed for organ in October 1916, it was orchestrated the following year. The organ...
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  • (1740s) Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 2 "To October", Op. 14 (1927) Leo Sowerby Symphony No. 2 (1928) Charles Tournemire Symphony No. 2 [fr], Op. 36...
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  • The Canticle of the Sun is a musical composition by Leo Sowerby (1895–1968) setting Matthew Arnold's English translation of Francis of Assisi's "Canticle...
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  • with teachers including Margaret Bonds, Aaron Copland, Rosario Scalero, Leo Sowerby, and Virgil Thomson. Roger Briggs Daron Hagen Jennifer Higdon Roger Bray...
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    Hanson ('44): Symphony No. 4 Aaron Copland ('45): Appalachian Spring Leo Sowerby ('46): The Canticle of the Sun Charles Ives ('47): Symphony No. 3 Walter...
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  • Soule (born 1975) André Souris (1899–1970) John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) Leo Sowerby (1895–1968) Johannes Spech (c. 1767 – 1836) Benjamin Speed (born 1979)...
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    including Arthur Olaf Andersen, Carl Busch, Wesley La Violette, and Leo Sowerby. She published four pieces for piano in 1928. While in Chicago, Price...
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  • Richard Shephard John Sheppard Caleb Simper Henry Smart William Smith Leo Sowerby John Stainer Charles Villiers Stanford Charles Steggall Charles Edward...
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  • repertoire Albert Hay Malotte (1895–1964) famous setting of "Lord's Prayer" Leo Sowerby (1895–1968) William Grant Still (1895–1978) the "Dean" of African-American...
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  • Jean-Pierre Leguay, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Kaikhosru Sorabji and Leo Sowerby. The theater organ achieved a brief period of prominence from about 1900–1935...
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  • organists, and soloists participated, among them Virgil Fox and Leo Sowerby. Sowerby's organ work Eternal Light was written for the occasion and given...
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  • (possibly between 1913 and 1918) under Giovanni Sgambatti (piano) and, with Leo Sowerby and Fernando Germani, under Ottorino Respighi (composition). Carnevali...
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  • Powell Richard Purvis Steve Reich Terry Riley Ned Rorem John Serry Sr. Leo Sowerby Tomáš Svoboda (composer) (French-born Czech-American) Giles Swayne Virgil...
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  • Northerners, however, tended to adopt the "hot", bluesy style themselves. Leo Sowerby, bandmaster of service bands during World War I composes "Tramping Tune"...
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  • composition at Ohio State University. She studied with Paul Creston and Leo Sowerby. Bolz composed secular and church music. In 1974 her Sweet Jesus was...
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  • the 5th Sonata for Violin and Piano by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leo Sowerby. Murray was the first violinist to record the four sonatas of Anton Rubinstein...
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  • Nadia Boulanger, Dr. William Duckwitz, the xylophonist John Heney, and Leo Sowerby. She married Edwin B. Libbey and they had one son. Libbey belonged to...
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