“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.
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Stimme
Item no.: 225181
Lyric book
Item no.: 385931
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano, CD or Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 162757
for: Clarinet
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 602700
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 631646
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1212377
in Es-Dur
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 145580
for: Medium Low Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 471018
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 485217
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 168032
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Treble Choir [SSA] and Piano [CD or Instruments]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1653011
Prelude
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653332
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 West Side Story
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730331
For The Inauguration Of J.F. Kennedy
for: Woodwind, Brass and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 909527
for the 25th Anniversary of the High School of Music and Art, New York City
for: Wind Instruments and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 905290
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 648005
for: Clarinet and Piano [Percussion and Double Bass]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471830
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1681302
for: String Orchestra, Percussion and Piano
Score
Item no.: 948996
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 198651
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586327
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 801483
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216946
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 881806
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1003956
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 268885
Solo arrangements of 10 songs for horn
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play Along
for: Horn
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 604802
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216951
From "West Side Story"
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616931
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 180052
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 604429
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557346
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 216950
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198419
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364785
for: Clarinet
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589196
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1613028
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554695
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 351167
Leonard Bernsteins religiöse Haltung im Spiegel seiner Werke
Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft 22
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 140655
Für Sie – von Leonard Bernstein
for: Electric organ
Music score
Item no.: 108416
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1278880
Biografie
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 289682
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 433245
For 5 brass instruments and wind band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 910256
A Fanfare
for Double Brass Ensemble and Percussion
for: Brass ensemble (14 parts), latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 866479
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