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  1. Elie Siegmeister (also published under pseudonym L. E. Swift; January 15, 1909, in New York City – March 10, 1991, in Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author.

    • Library of Congress
    • Elie Siegmeister papers, circa 1900-1990
  2. Mar 11, 1991 · Elie Siegmeister, whose compositions formed part of the cornerstone of the contemporary American symphonic school in the 1930's, died on Sunday at the North Shore University Hospital in...

  3. A social radical and, on occasion, a musical radical, Elie Siegmeister produced a body of work displaying a bewildering stylistic variety. As early as 1943 and again at the end of his life, he declared:…

  4. Elie Siegmeister. 1909 – 1991. American-born composer Elie Siegmeister is best remembered for his lifelong mission to forge a distinctive American compositional idiom consistent with his unwavering political and social commitment—an embracive and pliant idiom that was heavily reliant on American folk music and Americana, but which could be ...

  5. Apr 16, 2021 · We wrap up our year with the wonderful and inspiring “Prairie Morning” by Elie Siegmeister. This music conjures dawn in the American West, just as this digital season is an artistic dawn for...

    • 9 min
    • 919
    • Sequoia Symphony Orchestra
  6. Siegmeister, Elie (15 Jan. 1909) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev) Length: 147 words

  7. Siegmeister, Elie, significant American composer and teacher, whose works reflected the national moods and preoccupations from early social trends to universal concepts; b. N.Y., Jan. 15, 1909; d. Manhasset, N.Y., March 10, 1991.

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