Murdorj Luvsanjamba

Biography

Murdorj Luvsanjamba (Mongolian: Лувсанжамбын Мөрдорж; 1919–1996) was a Mongolian composer. He was one of the leading composers of Mongolia in the 1950s and 1960s. His symphonic work My Homeland, also known as Manai Ekh Oron (Our Motherland),[1] composed in 1955, was the first such work written in Mongolia.[2] He was also a co-composer of the national anthem of Mongolia. He was cited as belonging to “the nineteenth century European school of composers" who along with the other Mongolian composers…