"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
Leonard Bernstein

 

 

Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim.

 

 

Born: August 25, 1918, Lawrence

Died: October 14, 1990, New York City

Children: Jamie Anne Maria Bernstein, Alexander Serge Leonard Bernstein, Nina Maria Felicia Bernstein

Compositions: Candide, MASS, Chichester Psalms, Maria, Trouble in Tahiti, Symphony No. 3, America, Tonight, Symphony No. 2, Fancy Free, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, A Quiet Place, Symphony No. 1, Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, Piano Trio, A Boy Like That, Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion, Hashkiveinu, Dybbuk, Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra, Dance Suite, Halil, Slava! A Political Overture, Tonight Quintet, Cool, Somewhere, Glitter and Be Gay, West Side Story, Overture to Candide, Wonderful Town (selection)

Siblings: Burton Bernstein, Shirley Anne Bernstein

Education: Harvard University, Boston Latin School, Curtis Institute of Music