11 Facts About Peter Lieberson

Peter Goddard Lieberson was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Peter Lieberson was the son of ballerina and choreographer Vera Zorina and Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records.

Peter Lieberson attended Brandeis University, from which he received a Ph.

Peter Lieberson then became international director of Halifax Shambhala Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Peter Lieberson met his second wife, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, in 1997, during the Santa Fe Opera production of his work Ashoka's Dream; they married in 1999 after Lieberson and his first wife were divorced.

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Peter Lieberson wrote his song cycles Rilke Songs and Neruda Songs for Hunt Lieberson.

In December 2007, Peter Lieberson won the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Neruda Songs.

Peter Lieberson was commissioned by the Boston Symphony to compose another cycle of Neruda songs, which became the Songs of Love and Sorrow.

Peter Lieberson had three daughters from his first marriage, all of whom are members of the band TEEN.

Shortly after Lorraine Hunt Peter Lieberson died of breast cancer, Peter Lieberson himself was diagnosed with lymphoma.

Peter Lieberson had been living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the time of his death.