Yehoshua Lakner

{{Short description|Swiss Israeli classical music composer}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Yehoshua Lakner

| native_name = יהושוע לקנר

| native_name_lang = he

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|04|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|12|05|1924|04|24|df=yes}}

| death_place = Zürich, Switzerland

| occupation = Composer

| nationality = Israeli
Swiss

| education = Studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood

| awards =

• Engel Prize of the city of Tel-Aviv (1958)
• Salomon David Steinberg Foundation
• City of Zurich Sabbatical year for composition (1987)

| module = {{Infobox musical artist

| embed = yes

| genre = Contemporary classical

}}

}}

Yehoshua Lakner ({{Langx|he|יהושוע לקנר}}; b. Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 24 April 1924; d. Zürich, Switzerland, 5 December 2003) was a composer of contemporary classical music. He settled in Palestine in 1941 and relocated to Zürich in 1963.

He studied with the American composer Aaron Copland at Tanglewood in 1952.