Richard Toensing (March 11, 1940 - July 2, 2014) was an American composer and music educator.
[1] He studied composition at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1967.
His most notable teachers include Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett.
He later wrote Christmas carols and Kontakion on the Nativity of Christ, a setting of a sixth-century poem by St.
[2] Toensing received numerous awards for composition most notably from Columbia University (Joseph H. Bearns Prize), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and BMI.