Leonard Sarason (1925 – September 24, 1994) was a music composer, a pianist, and a mathematician. He earned a master's degree music composition from

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, supervised by

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ' ...

.In memory 3/95
Univ. of Washington, retrieved 2015-02-12.The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at http://www.ibiblio.org/pandora/mp3/contrib/Martha_Goldstein_Live/Readme After a doctorate in Mathematics at

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supervised by

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he taught mathematics at Stanford University and the

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. His mathematical research concerned partial differential equations.

Media

* Piano Sonata (1948)

References

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