Leo Smit (American composer)
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Leo Smit (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1921; d. Encinitas, California, 1999) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.
He studied with the Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He taught at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. In his later life, he composed nearly 100 songs to texts by the poet Emily Dickinson.[1]
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950.
He was also a photographer.[2]
He died at the age of 78, of heart failure.
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