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Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a family name, but this person is referred to by the given name Jón.

Jón Leifs (born Jón Þorleifsson on 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor.

Life

Jón Leifs was born Jón Þorleifsson, at the farm Sólheimar, then in the Húnavatnssýsla, northwesternIceland.^[1] He left for Germany in 1916 to study at the Leipzig Conservatory. He graduated in 1921 having studied piano with Robert Teichmüller, but decided not to embark on a career as a pianist, devoting his time instead to conducting and composing.

During this period he also encountered the legendary pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni, who urged him to "follow his own path in composition".^[2]

In the 1920s Jón Leifs conducted a number of symphony orchestras in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Denmark, thus becoming the only internationally successful Icelandic co Jon Leifs, Osmo Vänskä, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Leifs ...

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