1906 - 1997
Ross Lee Finney American Composer
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1905
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| Died |
1997
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Composer
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Ross Lee Finney Junior
(December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997)
was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan.
He received his early training at Carleton College and the University of Minnesota and also studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg (from 1931-2) and Roger Sessions (in 1935).
In 1928 he spent a year at Harvard University and then joined the faculty at Smith College, where he founded the Smith College Archives and conducted the Northampton Chamber Orchestra. In 1935, his setting of poems by Archibald MacLeish won the Connecticut Valley Prize, and in 1937, his First String Quartet received a Pulitzer Scholarship Award.
A Guggenheim Fellowship funded travel in Europe in 1937.
During World War II, Finney served in the Office of Strategic Services, and received a Purple Heart and a Certificate of Merit.
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