Donald Lybbert

Donald Lybbert was born in Cresco, Iowa in 1923. He was a member of the American Composers Alliance from 1976 until his death in 1981. He received a B.Mus. degree from the University of Iowa, the M.A. degree from Columbia University, and was a Teaching Fellow at The Juilliard School of Music. He also studied at Fontainebleau, in France, and received an artist’s diploma. Many of his scores and printing masters were deposited in the library collections of Hunter College in NYC, where Lybbert served as professor and music department chairman.