Bernstein Biography

He graduated from Harvard University and the Curtis Institute of Music, was improved in C. conducting art by S., occupying the post of assistant assistant in the Symphony Orchestra of the New York Philharmonic in years, Bernstein, as the youngest of the conductor who worked with this orchestra, attracted general attention, replacing the mastic B. Walter with brilliance at one of the concerts.

It was a triumph of Leonard and a sensation in the musical world. The public performance of the first work of Bernstein - the Symphony "Jeremiah" - took place in the year in Pittsburgh under the direction of the author himself. Soon he becomes the main conductor of the New York City Symphony Orchestra. Bernstein conducted the orchestras of London, Vienna, Milan and conquered the audience with a spontaneous temperament, romantic enthusiasm, and depth of penetration into the music.

Subsequent years have been awarded for Bernstein hundreds of concerts, tours on different continents, premieres of his new works and continuous growth of popularity. He possessed a pronounced creative personality: the desire for colorfulness and dynamism was combined in Bernstein with the depth and scale of the interpretation concept. As a pianist, he performed with piano parties and his own orchestral works.

He equally succeeded in the interpretation of classical and modern music, in particular he is one of the outstanding interpreters of Shostakovich's works. In the year, when Kusevitsky died, Bernstine took his class in Tanglwood and began to teach, lectured in Harvard. He considered the education of young musicians the most important thing. In lectures and in his books, Leonard seeks to infect people with his love of music, inquiring interest in her.

The repertoire of Bernstein is huge - he performed almost all the classical and modern music - from Bach to Mahler and Strauss, Stravinsky and Schlenberg. His Peru owns works of different genres. He is the author of symphonies, operas, musical comedies, ballets, vocal cycles, church music, plays, songs and music for cinema. He is a talented composer in the field of both jazz and serious music, the leading theorist and practitioner of the musical, a bright musical writer and lecturer who knows how to find a common language with the listener, a pianist and teacher, but first of all he is the largest conductor of the 20th century.

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