Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leopold Spinner (26 April 1906 - 12 August 1980) was a Ukrainian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor. Spinner was born of Austrian parentage in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1926 to 1930 he studied composition in Vienna with Paul Amadeus Pisk and afterwards began to attract international attention with works which were performed at the ISCM Festivals or awarded prizes. Nevertheless from 1935 to 1938 he underwent a second period of study, as a pupil of Anton Webern. He may be regarded as a representative of the so-called Second Viennese School. In 1939 Spinner emigrated to England and spent the war years in Yorkshire, working part of the time as a lathe operator in a locomotive factory in Bradford.