Artist Name

Leonard Bernstein

(0 users)

Logo

Artist Image

Functions

Data Complete 50%

15%

Complete Release refresh

view

2018 - Wonderful Town

1990 - Ode to Freedom: Bernstein in Berlin: Beethoven Symphony no.

1989 - Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances and Songs

1989 - Symphonien nos. 5 & 7

1988 - Symphony no. 5 / Pohjola's Daughter

1988 - Symphonie no. 2

1988 - CBS Great Performances, Volume 39: Appalachian Spring Suite

1987 - Fauré: Requiem / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms (Royal Philha

1987 - Appalachian Spring / Rodeo / Billy the Kid / Fanfare for the

1987 - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / The Unanswered Question

1987 - Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Copland: In the beginning and

1987 - Symphonie no. 2

1987 - Bernstein Conducts Bernstein (New York Philharmonic feat. co

1986 - Symphonie no. 9

1986 - Symphony No. 7

1986 - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Grofé:

1986 - Symphony No. 3 / Quiet City

1985 - CBS Great Performances, Volume 6: Beethoven: Symphony no. 5

1983 - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Barber: Adagio for Strings / Co

1983 - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

1981 - Tristan und Isolde

1980 - Symphony No. 5

1973 - Symphonies nos. 5 & 6

1973 - The Planets

1972 - Bernstein: Le Sacre du printemps

1969 - On the Beautiful Blue Danube

1961 - West Side Story (1961 film cast)

Members
1 Male

Origin
origin flag

Massachusetts, USA

Genre
flag

Conductor

Style
Classical

Mood
---

Born

1918

Active
--- 1990

Cutout
transparent

Most Loved Tracks
4 users

Leonard Bernstein - Adagio for Strings
4 users

Leonard Bernstein - Maria
4 users

Leonard Bernstein - America
4 users

Leonard Bernstein - I Feel Pretty
4 users

Leonard Bernstein - Rhapsody in Blue

Music Video Links
No Music Videos Found...

Artist Biography
Available in:

Leonard Bernstein, a unique source of creative energy in America’s music throughout his entire adult lifetime, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918.
He was given piano lessons as a boy and had his pre-college education at the Garrison and Boston Latin schools. Going on to Harvard University, he worked with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. By the time of his graduation, in 1939, he had made an unofficial conducting debut (his own incidental music to The Birds), and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. Later, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and composition with Randall Thompson.
In 1949 he became a student of the Boston Symphony’s reigning conductor, Serge Koussevitzky, at Tanglewood, and he was subsequently named his conducting assistant.
Mr. Bernstein’s first permanent conducting post, however, was as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to which he was named in 1943. That was an important year for him both as a composer and as a conductor. Not only did he win the New York Music Critic’ Award for his first symphony, Jeremiah, but he also made his sudden and now famous debut with the Philharmonic, substituting on just a few hours’ notice for the indisposed Bruno Walter at a concert at Carnegie Hall. He won extraordinary praise, and was soon being sought as guest conductor by leading orchestras all over the world.