Composer Leo Sowerby

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Leo Sowerby

Living place: Michigan

Birthday: 1-5-1895

Global rank: #95470

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Who is Composer Leo Sowerby?
Called "American Church Music Dean." He won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for "Song of the Sun," a cantata.
He left behind composers who tried to imitate the myths of Central Europe and led a generation of contemporaries in creating a distinctly American sound.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied music and composition with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was the first musician to receive the Rome Prize.

Family life info

His family was residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when he was born.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Leo Sowerby?
He taught Maylon Merrill, who became music director for major radio comedian Jack Benny.

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When was Composer Leo Sowerby born?
Leo Sowerby was born in 1-5-1895, death year is , at the age of 129.
Where is Composer Leo Sowerby's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Leo Sowerby was born in Michigan, . is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Leo Sowerby's global rank is 95470 and whose rank is 1237 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1895 and 1-5

Birthday Leo Sowerby (1-5) in history

  • Day 1-5 year 1707: The date of the Act of Confederation allowed the merger of England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.
  • Day 1-5 year 1931: The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.
  • Day 1-5 year 1941: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.
  • Day 1-5 year 1948: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.
  • Day 1-5 year 1960: The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory.
  • Day 1-5 year 1967: Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)
  • Day 1-5 year 1991: 44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh and final no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. That same day, Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record.
  • Day 1-5 year 2003: President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
  • Day 1-5 year 2009: For the first time in 341 years, a woman is appointed as poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Carol Ann Duffy, 53, will take over the post from current poet laureate Andrew Motion.
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