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Leslie Crabtree is a
Canadian composer, now living in the USA, in
Leslie
writes mostly vocal music, for voice and piano;
however he has also composed several pieces for piano solo. He has written many songs in
several different languages (English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc.)
on texts by world famous poets, such as William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin,
Heinrich Heine, Reiner Maria Rilke,
and others.
Leslie
Crabtree has written one opera, Washington
Square, based on the short novel by Henry
James. Now he is working on a second
opera, Measure for Measure, based on the play by William Shakespeare.
He
has also written two song cycles: 9
Lieder, on the collection of poems by Heinrich
Heine, from his Buch der Lieder; and a longer cycle, “Mains de Sable” (“Hands of Sand”), which is a set of 30 poems by
the French-Canadian poet, Cécile Cloutier.
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