Leo Smit (American composer)
- Leo Smit (American composer)
Leo Smit (January 12, 1921 – December 12, 1999) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he studied with the Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He wrote two operas, "The Alchemy of Love" (1969) and "Magic Water" (1978). [ [http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/S.html Opera Glass] ] In his later life, he composed nearly 100 songs to texts by the poet Emily Dickinson. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6D91139F934A15751C1A96F958260]
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950.
He was also a photographer. [http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/exhibits/smit/photographer.html]
He died in Encinitas, California at the age of 78, of congestive heart failure.
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6D91139F934A15751C1A96F958260 Obituary from "The New York Times"]
* [http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music/exhibits/smit/ Remembering Leo Smit]
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