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Wassili Leps (May 12, 1870 – December 22, 1942) was a Russian-born American composer and conductor. Born near Saint Petersburg, he came to the United States in 1894. He first went to New Orleans, and then settled in Philadelphia, where he became active in musical circles. He frequently conducted at the summer music festivals in Willow Grove Park. He wrote numerous operas; Hoshi-San was premiered in Philadelphia in 1909. From 1932-1942 he was the director and conductor of the Providence Symphony Orchestra in Rhode Island. He died in 1942 in Toronto.[1]

References

• Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

External links

• Works by or about Wassili Leps at Internet Archive

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