“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 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
Jazz Play-Along Volume 92
10 favorite Songs including "Somewhere", "Cool", "Mambo" etc.
for: Voice; piano ad lib.
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 561643
Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Songbook PVG (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
Item no.: 1209893
Saxophone Choir
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1133727
Concert Selections for Soloists and Chorus
for: Solo Voices, Mixed Choir, Percussion and Chamber orch.
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 863140
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Clarinet, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 580779
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band
for: Concert Band and Brass Quintet
Score
Item no.: 906550
Symphony No. 3
for: Soloist (soprano), narrator, mixed choir (SATB), boys' choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 289683
34 Selections
for: Medium Low Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 471018
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 582440
Gee, Officer Krupke
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900530
47 Songs
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 580432
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132509
Quarter Military Band QMB 435
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 159251
Quarter Military Band QMB 435
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1681302
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 198564
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 433245
Instrumental Solos
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 628105
Instrumental Solos
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 631637
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 631681
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 631646
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 648005
Instrumental Solos
for: Horn, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 627758
Instrumental Solos
for: Trombone, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 631655
Instrumental Solos
for: Trumpet, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 631659
for Cello solo
Instrumental Solos
for: Cello
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 683172
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211661
29 Selections
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 471091
In three Movements
for: Boy's alto [countertenor], boy's choir [mixed choir], symphony orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 579005
from "West Side Story"
Quarter Military Band QMB 562
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 657300
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 557579
Transcribed from the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 861743
49 Songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 580431
24 Songs
Duette, Terzette und Ensembles
for: 2–4 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 580433
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 1212158
Unendliche Vielfalt eines Musikers
Serie Musik
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 180052
for: Flute Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1191294
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197668
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1144505
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132424
A Cycle of American Poems
for: 6 Singers and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631500
for: Saxophone ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132311
from Mass
for: Cello, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 167895
for: Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone and Piano [4 Hands]
Book
Item no.: 469226
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1134
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 179103
Canadian Bras
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1107105
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