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{{Short description|Chilean composer}}
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'''Alfonso Leng Haygus''' (11 February 1884 &ndash; 11 November 1974)<ref>[http://www.sinfonica.com.co/vercompositor.php?id=111 Alfonso Leng] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503222132/http://www.sinfonica.com.co/vercompositor.php?id=111 |date=2014-05-03 }}, [[National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia|Sinfónica de Colombia]] (accessed 2014-04-22) (in Spanish)</ref> was a post-romantic composer of [[European classical music|classical music]].<ref>[[John Beckwith (composer)|John Beckwith]], ''In Search of Alberto Guerrero'' ([[Wilfrid Laurier University Press]], 2006), {{ISBN|978-0889204966}}, pp. 18ff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WPEvt2ZDoWEC&q=leng&pg=PA18 Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> He was born in [[Santiago]], Chile. He wrote the first important [[symphony|symphonic]] work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a [[symphonic poem]] inspired by the novel of [[Pedro Prado]]. He composed many art songs in different languages and important piano pieces, like the five "Doloras" (1914), which he later orchestrated and are normally played in concerts in Chile and Latin America. He won the National Art Prize in 1957.
Leng was also an accomplished [[dentist]] in Santiago.<ref>[[Nicolas Slonimsky]], ''Writings on Music'' ([[Routledge]], 2004), {{ISBN|978-0415968676}}, vol. 3, p.25 [https://www.questia.com/read/109168149/writings-on-music Excerpts available] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308044931/https://www.questia.com/read/109168149/writings-on-music |date=2016-03-08 }}</ref>  As a dentist, he was the main founder of the dentistry faculty of the [[University of Chile]], and he was eventually elected as the first dean.
Leng was the nephew of composer [[Carmela Mackenna]].
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