“Music... can name the unnameable and convey the unfathomable.” Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, pedagogue, and musical educator. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his ground-breaking works with Stretta Music today!
Bernstein studied music at Harvard and conducting with Sergei Koussevitzky at Tanglewood. His international conducting career got off to a quick start, when he jumped-in for Bruno Walter to conduct the New York Philharmonic. In the following years, he not only became music director of the New York Philharmonic, but he was also the first American to be guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Europe and around the world, including Vienna, London, Berlin, Boston, Prague, Israel, and many more.
His last concerts in 1989 and 1990 were of great importance. On Christmas Day 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he conducted one of the most impactful performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He made a small, yet decisive change to Schiller’s text in the finale, “Ode to Joy”, the chorus and soloists sang “Freedom”, instead of “Joy”, which was a strong political statement. He also conducted the same work in June 1990, at the final concert of the Prague Spring Festival, only six months after the fall of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia. Both concerts are still considered symbols of new found freedom, and have had a lasting impact on music history to this day.
Leonard Bernstein quickly recognized the power of the new, emerging medium, television. From as early as the 1950s, he brought music education programmes for both young and old to people’s living rooms all around America. His most popular series was the ’Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic’, which enjoyed 53 episodes. Bernstein was also instrumental in popularising modern American classical music, and he regularly performed works by Aaron Copland and many other American composers.
Bernstein was a polystylist who used elements of both classical and popular music, whichever served him best at any particular moment. His compositions often have a tonal basis, a pronounced irregular or off-beat rhythm, and creative, unusual instrumentation. He often uses several languages in his vocal compositions, most commonly English, Latin and Hebrew. He made a huge impact on American musical theatre, and his West Side Story is one of the most successful musicals of all time. Bernstein’s Three Symphonies, Sacred Music by Bernstein and Bernstein’s Chamber Music are also important additions to performance repertoire around the world today.
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727939
10 Songs
for: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 641355
for: Concert band
Item no.: 1658016
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 615289
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 277170
for: Youth concert band
Score
Item no.: 471609
for: Strings, percussion, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 646756
for: Voice
Score
Item no.: 607771
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 159251
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Book
Item no.: 558009
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 816600
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948999
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1003792
for: Boy's alto [countertenor], boy's choir [mixed choir], symphony orchestra
Score
Item no.: 208079
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681202
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 657792
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 195059
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197674
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 372273
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 557579
Klavierstimme zu Eres 5425
for: Piano
Additional part
Item no.: 290623
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592541
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 389413
Prelude
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184580
aus "West Side Story"
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 156733
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 976
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 483979
from Kaddish Symphony No. 3
for: 5-Part Boys Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 373307
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471608
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727935
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 272420
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 148876
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 491882
for: 3 Voices and Piano
Score
Item no.: 890739
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1204475
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1211478
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 635294
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 176631
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216954
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 165109
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 271920
for: Concert band
Item no.: 465965
for: Flute
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589490
aus "West Side Story"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 155747
from "West Side Story"
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531113
arranged for two pianos
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 168618
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 491883
aus "West Side Story"
Evergreens & Welterfolge
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 277143
for: Horn (F/E-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 276386
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