Spies. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. In 2000 he was awarded a Gold Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Compositions Notable students Personal life In 1951 Foss married Cornelia Brendel, an artist and painter who was born in Berlin in 1931, the daughter of art historian Otto Brendel and Maria Weigert Brendel. The couple had two children, Christopher Brendel Foss, who became a documentary filmmaker and corporate consultant on social and environmental engagement/sustainability communications, and Eliza Foss Topol, an actress. Foss and his wife were separated for almost five years from 1968 to 1972, during which Cornelia was the lover of pianist Glenn Gould and moved with the two children to Toronto, an arrangement that she later called, "a perfect triangle". Foss, who had Parkinson's disease in his final years, died at his home in Manhattan on February 1, 2009, aged 86, of a heart attack. References External links Lukas Foss' page at Carl Fischer [ Allmusic: Lukas Foss] Humanities Web: Lukas Foss Index CDeMusic: Lukas Foss New Albion Artists: Lukas Foss Art of the States: Lukas Foss Lucas Foss Collection at the Library of Congress Interviews Lukas Foss interview by Gabrielle Zuckerman, from American Mavericks site Lukas Foss interview by Terry Gross, from Fresh Air program, originally broadcast October 7, 1987 Interview with Lukas Foss by Bruce Duffie, February 2, 1987 1922 births 2009 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century American composers 20th-century German composers 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century classical composers 21st-century American composers 21st-century German composers 21st-century American male musicians American male classical composers American classical composers American male conductors (music) Ballet composers Contemporary classical music performers German classical composers German male classical composers German conductors (music) German male conductors (music) Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Jewish American classical composers Music & Arts artists Musicians from Berlin Curtis Institute of Music alumni Tanglewood Music Center faculty University at Buffalo alumni Yale University alumni Pupils of Fritz Reiner Pupils of Paul Hindemith Pupils of Rosario Scalero 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews Fulbright alumni