“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.
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 145119
aus "West Side Story"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 416788
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212385
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1479231
A Medley including: Maria, Tonight, One Hand, One Heart, Cool, Somewhere
Arranged by Jay Bocook
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 444618
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 431193
From West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211480
from the Musical Production 1600 Pensylvania Avenue
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1211689
10 Songs
for: Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 641387
Almighty Father
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 158556
from Trouble in Tahiti
for: Unison Treble Voices and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 445797
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1563257
Young Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1212412
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211694
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1029547
Oper in einem Akt (sieben Szenen)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177463
F
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1035774
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1612996
from Pensylvania Avenue
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211674
Almighty Father
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148267
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
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1666597
Boosey and Hawkes Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 908203
Symphony No. 3
for: Soloist (soprano), narrator, mixed choir (SATB), boys' choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 289683
aus "West Side Story"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 225179
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 582440
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
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
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1036574
Vocal Selections
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Book
Item no.: 1212407
West Side Story
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 163781
from West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 154023
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 198564
It must be so
for: Mixed Choir [SATB], Solo [S/T] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 151544
A Cycle of Five Kids Songs
for: Children's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 770307
Dream with me
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] a Cappella, Piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1211821
America
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 154106
Vocal Selections
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 294720
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 189533
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 680905
49 Songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 580431
The best of all possible worlds
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198633
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 207829
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1479372
Original version from the Musical Candide
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 584786
Opera in 3 acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177022
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