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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.
The American composer Morten Lauridsen is professor of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. [2]He wrote his setting of "O magnum mysterium" in 1994, on a commission from Marshall Rutter of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, [3] for his wife Terry Knowles.
Rutter was particularly noted for commissioning new music, including Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, which he commissioned in 1994, in honor of his wife Terry Knowles (they had married two years earlier). It was the composer's first commission and its popularity made him famous.
The New York premiere was hosted by Distinguished Concerts International New York on March 30, 2012, introduced by composer/conductor Eric Whitacre and attended by Lauridsen, followed by a Lincoln Center performance of Lux Aeterna and Carnegie Hall performances of Sure On This Shining Night and Dirait-on, conducted by Whitacre and accompanied ...
The text became popular again in the twentieth century, with notable settings by Francis Poulenc and more recently Morten Lauridsen (article on the setting) and Marcus Paus. The Choral Public Domain Library carries a list of roughly fifty choral settings.
Morten Lauridsen, composer; Anita Lerche, singer-songwriter and composer; Lauritz Melchior, opera singer; M. P. Møller, pipe organ builder; Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick guitarist; Oh Land (Nanna Øland), singer-songwriter; Iggy Pop, singer-songwriter; Matthew Santos, rock and folk singer-songwriter, musician and painter, mother Danish-born
1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor; 1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager; 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American author (d. 2003) 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer and coach; 1944 – Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020) [46]
Fisk Jubilee Singers, circa 1870s. The singers were organized as a fundraising effort for Fisk University. The historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, was founded by the American Missionary Association and local supporters after the end of the American Civil War to educate freedmen and other young African Americans.