“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.
Choral Suite
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1212173
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211976
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 863746
Easy Music For Strings
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 809565
from "West Side Story"
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730661
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727939
Music for String Orchestra
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948999
for: Wind Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211751
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341408
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341409
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1479231
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Wind Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211870
From West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211480
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212385
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 1212158
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727935
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 491882
from the film On the Waterfront
for: Brass Instruments, Percussion and Piano
Score
Item no.: 897221
Quarter Military Band QMB 563
for: Wind Band
Score
Item no.: 866243
for Three Treble Voices and Piano
for: 3 Voices and Piano
Score
Item no.: 890739
Choral Highlights
for: Mixed Choir [SAB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 892580
Vocal Solo-Jazz Ensemble Series
for: Voice, big band
Score
Item no.: 805052
From "West Side Story"
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791940
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211546
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212341
One Hand and America
for: Marching band
Book
Item no.: 1211932
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 903429
from West Side Story
for: Big band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 897083
Quarter Military Band QMB 563
for: Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 866495
for: Piano
Music score, online media
Item no.: 862913
for: Blechbläserquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 474470
No. 2 from "Four Anniversaries"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 791889
From "West Side Story"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 791888
Saxophone Choir
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1133727
Benedictus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSATTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1670475
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132260
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341402
F
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1035774
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1029547
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1211726
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211694
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211578
for: Mixed Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211568
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211509
Young Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1212412
Esprit Marching Band
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212388
Make our Garden grow
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212194
A Concert Overture
for: Wind Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 862125
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