# Ross Lee Finney

> American composer (1906–1997)

**Wikidata**: [Q323394](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323394)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Lee_Finney)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ross-lee-finney

## Summary

Ross Lee Finney was born on December 23, 1906, in Wells [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. He died on February 4, 1997, in Carmel-by-the-Sea [1][2][3][4][5][6][8]. He worked as a composer and music educator [9].Finney served as an educator at Smith College from 1929 to 1949 and later at the University of Michigan from 1949 to 1973 [7]. During his career, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and an Arts and Letters Award in Music [7][10][11].


## References

1. Guggenheim Fellows database
2. Freebase Data Dumps
3. Virtual International Authority File
4. BnF authorities
5. Operone
6. [Source](https://depts.washington.edu/prized/rome-prize/rome-prize-1955-1969/)
7. [Source](https://artsandletters.org/awards/)
8. International Standard Name Identifier
9. MusicBrainz
10. CiNii Research
11. [Source](https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu022013)
12. [Source](https://archives.nypl.org/mus/20302)
13. SNAC
14. Discogs
15. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
16. Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
17. Musicalics
18. list of students of Frédéric Chopin
19. LIBRIS. 2016