“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.
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 976
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 483979
for Violin and Piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 485217
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 216953
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216951
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216946
Geistliche Musik
for: counter Tenor and Mixed Choir a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1660009
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216948
Geistliche Musik
for: counter Tenor and Mixed Choir a Cappella, Percussion ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1011881
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216955
A Vocal Selection
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 564297
Boosey and Hawkes Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 908203
From The West Side Story
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531110
From The West Side Story
for: 2 Bb Clarinets, Eb Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531111
Arrangement for piano solo by Leonard Bernstein
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1664920
Arrangement for piano solo by Leonard Bernstein
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 131584
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 272420
From The West Side Story
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531112
from "West Side Story"
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531113
From The West Side Story
for: Soprano, 3 Alto, 2 Tenor and Bariton Saxophone
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531109
Ausschnitte
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 475798
10 Songs
for: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 641355
10 Songs
for: Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 641387
Vocal Selections
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Book
Item no.: 1212407
A Fanfare
for Double Brass Ensemble and Percussion
for: Brass ensemble (14 parts), latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 866479
10 Songs
for: Baritone/Bass and Piano
Book
Item no.: 641248
10 Songs
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1657482
10 Songs
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 641507
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 680698
10 Songs
for: Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 1667959
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 578291
A Concert Overture
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 327732
Revised Edition - Based on Manuscript Sources
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 886576
For The Inauguration Of J.F. Kennedy
for: Woodwind, Brass and Percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 909527
from Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble
for: Clarinet and Piano [Percussion and Double Bass]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471830
for: Wind Band
Score
Item no.: 1211895
from Mass
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 167896
New Sounds for Concert Band
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 883377
A Political Overture
Great Band Transcriptions
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band 406
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 906830
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 145119
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 905107
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341409
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341402
Quarter Military Band 464
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 155055
Vocal Selections
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 294720
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 972
for: Flute, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 218153
In Three Movements
for: Soloist, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 898899
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 195059
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