Who is Leonard Bernstein?

Composer, pianist and conductor Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 to Russian immigrants. As a child, he took the piano lessons and studied music at the University of Harvard, where he met Aaron Copland, most of which he performed and performed, and their style was deeply influenced. After getting his university studies in 1939, Bernstein went to study at the Curtis Institute and over the next two years, Serge Kousvitzky - then the conductor of the Boston Symphony - in tanglewood.

In 1942 Leonard Bernstein became an assistant to Koussevitzky and in 1943 he was selected as an assistant conductor New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein immediately became a famous stage in a short time when the planned conductor was a patient in November of the same year. Just three months later, his first symphony was Prime Minister Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and continued to win the Best American Place of the Year from the Circle of New York Music Circle critics. He also composed music for chamber problemsThe Musical West Side Story and Film on the waterfront . He became a professor of music at Brandeis University, followed by Kousvitzky as the head of the Department of conducting and orchestra in Tanglewood after Koussevitzky's death in 1951.

In 1958, Leonard Bernstein became the first American conductor to be appointed music director of New York Philharmonic. In this post he introduced thematically organized concerts of young people that were broadcast and solemnly at the Lincoln Center, now called Avery Fisher Hall. He RV post until 1969, when he was appointed a laureate conductor for a lifetime. In later years he led elsewhere, especially with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and in the autumn of the Berlin Wall in 1989 he led the unforgettable portrayal of Beethoven's ninth symphony.

Bernstein has won many honors and awards, including 11 prizesEmmy, Lifetime Awards Grammy Award, Kennedy Center honor for lifelong contributions to American culture through Music Art and many other awards. Died in 1990.