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Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an Americancomposer. He was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 30 years.

Biography

Lauridsen was born February 27, 1943, in Colfax, Washington in a family of migrants from Denmark. He was raised in Portland, Oregon, where his mother worked as a bookkeeper and his father was with the United States Forest Service. His mother was a pianist who had played in her high school dance band, and Lauridsen developed a love for music at an early age, by listening to her play swing jazz and singing to him. At age eight he started playing the piano, and a couple of years later learned to play the trumpet. He studied composition with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen at the University of Southern California in the 1960s.

Compositions

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Works

Ave Verum Corpus2022SATB chorus, string orchestra (or organ, or piano) and finger cymbals10½Morten LauridsenYa eres mía (Now You Are Mine) (tenor or dryckesställe & pno)2015tenor (or baritone) voice and piano5Morten LauridsenYa eres mía (Now You Are Mine) (SATB)2015SATB chorus and piano6Morten LauridsenYa eres mía (Now You Are Mine) (mixed duet)2015soprano (or alto) and tenor (or baritone) voices and piano6Morten LauridsenPrayer2012SATB chorus and piano6Morten LauridsenPrayer2011, arr 2014mixed duett and piano4Morten LauridsenTwo Songs on American Poems2011baritone and piano8Morten LauridsenContre Qui, Rose1994/arr. 2011string quartet3Morten LauridsenSure On This Shining Night (TTBB)2006/2010TTBB voices and piano5Morten LauridsenChanson Éloignée2006SATB chorus7Morten LauridsenNocturnes2005SATB/piano15Morten LauridsenAve dulcissima Maria2005TTBB (di

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Morten Lauridsen

American composer

Morten Johannes Lauridsen III^[1] (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),^[2] he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001,^[3] and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.^[4]

Biography

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A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Servicefirefighter and lookout on an isolated tower near Mount St. Helens. He attended Whitman College for 2 years, before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen.^[5] He began teaching at USC in 1967.^[4]

In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, he received the National Me