Leonard Bernstein

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Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works like "West Side Story" and for his long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic.

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instanceOf author
composer
conductor
human
music educator
pianist
awardReceived Emmy Award
Grammy Award
Kennedy Center Honors
Tony Award
birthName Louis Bernstein
burialPlace Green-Wood Cemetery
causeOfDeath heart attack
mesothelioma
child Alexander Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein
Nina Bernstein
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1918-08-25
dateOfDeath 1990-10-14
educatedAt Curtis Institute of Music
Harvard University
employer New York Philharmonic
endTime 1969
ethnicGroup American Jew
familyName Leonard Bernstein self-linksurface differs
surface form: Bernstein
fieldOfWork classical music
musical theatre
fullName Leonard Bernstein self-link
genre Broadway musical
choral music
symphonic music
givenName Leonard
influenced American classical music
Broadway composers
influencedBy Aaron Copland
Gustav Mahler
instrument piano
languageSpoken English
French
German
Italian
movement American modernism in music
notableAchievement famous for Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic
first American-born conductor to lead a major American orchestra on a long-term basis
notableWork Candide
Chichester Psalms
Mass
On the Town
Serenade after Plato's Symposium
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"
West Side Story
Wonderful Town
Young People’s Concerts (television series)
numberOfChildren 3
occupation composer
conductor
music educator
pianist
television presenter
placeOfBirth Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
positionHeld music director of the New York Philharmonic
religion Judaism
residence New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
sexualOrientation bisexual
signatureWork West Side Story
spouse Felicia Montealegre
startTime 1958

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Jets creator Leonard Bernstein
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subject surface form: Sharks (West Side Story)
Tony musicBy Leonard Bernstein
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Wrong Note Rag composer Leonard Bernstein
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subject surface form: Green-Wood Cemetery
Paavo Järvi studiedUnder Leonard Bernstein
Basya Cohen collaboratedWith Leonard Bernstein
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“Saturday Night Waltz” associatedWithConductor Leonard Bernstein
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