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Ave, dulcissima Maria (1)Chanson eloignee (1)
Dirait-on (1)
Fanfare for Brass Sextet (1)
Les Chansons des Roses (3)
Lux Aeterna (3)
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems (3)
Magnum Mysterium (1)
Mid-Winter Songs (2)
Nocturnes (2)
O Love Be Fed With Apples While You May (2)
O Nata Lux (5)
O magnum mysterium (arr. for Wind Band) (1)
O magnum mysterium (33)
Prayer (1)
Sure on This Shining Night (1)
Ubi caritas et amor (2)
Ya eres mia (1)
Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), 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 40 years.
In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide".
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Recent Lauridsen releases
The Sixteen: 40th Anniversary Collection
£18.95
(Coro)
The Music of King’s: Choral Music from Cambridge
£9.45
(Kings College Cambridge)
American Reflections: 20th- and 21st-Century Choral Music
£16.10
(MSR Classics)
Radiance: Choral works by Carr, Lauridsen, Chilcott, Gjeilo, Whitacre
£10.26
(EM Records)