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Leonard Bernstein
- conductor
- pianist
- composer
- film score composer
- music teacher
- writer
- musicographer
- teacher
- Born 1918-08-25
- Died 1990-10-14 (aged 72)
- Nationality United States
- Years active 1940–1990
Biography
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Known for
Filmography
See full filmography- 2023MaestrocomposerMovie
age 72 - 2021West Side StorycomposerMovie
age 72 - 1961West Side StorycomposerMovie
age 43 - 1954On the WaterfrontcomposerMovie
age 36 - 1949On the TowncomposerMovie
age 31
| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Maestro | Movie | composer | 72 |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Movie | composer | 72 |
| 1961 | Movie | composer | 43 | |
| 1954 | Movie | composer | 36 | |
| 1949 | Movie | composer | 31 |
Career timeline
Award won Role or nomination
1918 age 0
Born1949 age 31
1954 age 36
1961 age 43
1990 age 72
Died2021 age 72
2023 age 72
Worked with most
Family and influences
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Photos
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together — with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
Callas? She was pure electricity.
Leonard Bernstein, CC BY-SA 4.0
TV appearances
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Facts
Personal details
- Nationalities
- United States
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Languages
- English
- Years active
- 1940–1990
- Instruments
- piano
- Record labels
- Columbia Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips Records, Sony Classical
- Genres
- symphony, classical music, opera
- Notable works
- Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, West Side Story, Candide
- Education
- Curtis Institute of Music, Eliot House, Harvard University