“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: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 791891
for: Clarinet, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1613020
for: Double Bass, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612211
for: Violin, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1638635
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212385
from Kaddish Symphony No. 3
for: 5-Part Boys Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 373307
from Trouble in Tahiti
for: Unison Treble Voices and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 445797
for: Flute
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589490
for: Flute, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1612075
Almighty Father
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148267
for: Piano
Piano Duet
Item no.: 1612725
for: Piano
Piano Duet
Item no.: 1612634
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553375
Soldier's Song
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSATTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 163395
from Wonderful Town
for: Mixed Choir [SAB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211994
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554695
for: Clarinet
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589196
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1613028
for: Double Bass, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1561493
Sanctus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloistssten [SSATTBB] a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 225210
for: Viola, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1638662
from Wonderful Town
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809746
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 377859
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1212345
This World
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 162409
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 168332
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 161344
Prelude
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184580
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 431193
One Hand and America
for: Marching band
Book
Item no.: 1211932
for cantor, mixed chorus and organ score (hebr.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 644711
Benedictus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSATTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1670475
from the Musical Production 1600 Pensylvania Avenue
for: Women's Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 362981
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 163784
for: Mixed Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212145
Plank Round
for: Bass, Men's Choir [TTBB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 177465
Simple Song
for: Unison Treble Voices and Piano, With Optional Flute
Choir score
Item no.: 373305
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano, CD or Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 162757
West Side Story
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 163781
Somewhere Aus West Side Story
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Stimme
Item no.: 225181
Der romantische Klassiker aus dem Broadway-Musical West Side Story, arrangiert für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 189534
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 168032
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 686029
Prelude
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653332
from West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 154023
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Treble Choir [SSA] and Piano [CD or Instruments]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1653011
Dream with me
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] a Cappella, Piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1211821
Benedictus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSATTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 225195
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