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List of compositions by Leonard Bernstein

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Leonard Bernstein, ca. 1950s.

This is a list of compositions by the American composer Leonard Bernstein.

Ballet

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  • Fancy Free (later provided material for "On the Town" and "West Side Story") (1944)
  • Facsimile, Choreographic Essay for Orchestra (1946)
  • Dybbuk (1974)

Opera

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Musicals

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Incidental music and other theatre

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Film scores

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Orchestral

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Choral

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  • Hashkivenu, for Cantor (tenor), Mixed Chorus and Organ (1945)
  • Simchu Na, arrangement of a traditional Hebrew song for Mixed Chorus and Piano or Orchestra (1947)
  • Reena, arrangement of a traditional Hebrew song for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1947)
  • Yigdal, Hebrew liturgical melody for Mixed Chorus and piano (1950)
  • Harvard Choruses, for Mixed Chorus (1957)
  • Chichester Psalms, for Boy Soprano (or Countertenor), Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra (Reduced version for Organ, Harp and Percussion) (1965)
  • Warm-Up, round for Mixed Chorus (1970)
  • A Little Norton Lecture, (after E. E. Cummings) for Men's Chorus (1973)
  • White House Cantata, for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1976). See 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical).
  • Olympic Hymn, for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (1981)
  • Missa Brevis, for Mixed Chorus and Countertenor Solo, with Percussion (1988)

Chamber music

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  • Music for String Quartet (1936, edited by Garth Edwin Sunderland)
  • Piano Trio (1937)
  • Violin Sonata (1940)
  • Four Studies for two Clarinets, two Bassoons and Piano (c. 1940)
  • Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
  • Fanfare for Bima, for Brass Quartet (composed as a birthday tribute to Koussevitzky using the tune he whistled to call his cocker spaniel)[1] (1948)
  • Elegy for Mippy I, for Horn and Piano (1948)
  • Elegy for Mippy II, for Trombone Solo (1948)
  • Waltz for Mippy III, for Tuba and Piano (1948)
  • Rondo for Lifey, for Trumpet and Piano (1948)
  • Shivaree: A Fanfare, for Double Brass Ensemble and Percussion (commissioned by and dedicated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in honor of its Centenary; musical material later used in "Mass.") (1969)
  • Canon for Aaron for Violin and Piano; Composed for Aaron Copland’s 70th birthday celebrations (1970)
  • Dance Suite, for Brass Quintet (1989)
  • Variations on an Octatonic Scale, for Recorder and Violoncello (1989)

Vocal music

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  • Psalm 148, for voice and piano (1935)
  • I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kid Songs for Soprano and Piano (1943)
  • Big Stuff, sung by Billie Holiday (1944)
  • Afterthought, study for the ballet "Facsimile" for Soprano and Piano or Orchestra (1945)
  • La Bonne Cuisine: Four Recipes for Voice and Piano (1947)
  • Two Love Songs on Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke for Voice and Piano (1949)
  • Silhouette (Galilee), for Voice and Piano (1951)
  • On the Waterfront, for Voice and Piano (1954)
  • Get Hep!, Marching Song written for the Tercentary of Michigan State College for Voice and Piano (1955)
  • So Pretty, for Voice and Piano (1968)
  • Haiku Souvenirs, five songs for voice and piano
  • Vayomer Elohim, for Voice and Piano (1974)
  • My New Friends, for Voice and Piano (1979)
  • Piccola Serenata, for Voice and Piano (1979)
  • Opening Prayer, for Baritone and Orchestra (written for the reopening of Carnegie Hall) (1986)
  • Arias and Barcarolles, for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone and Piano four-hands (1988)
  • My Twelve Tone Melody, for Voice and Piano (written for Irving Berlin's 100th birthday) (1988)

Piano music

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Other music

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  • Babel: a holocaust opera
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Songs after Bertold Brecht
  • The Skin of Our Teeth (1964): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms"
  • Alarums and Flourishes (1980): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in "A Quiet Place"
  • Tucker: an aborted concept for a musical version of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"

References

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  1. ^ Copland, Aaron and Perlis, Vivian (1984). Copland Since 1943, p119.

Sources

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Bernstein, Leonard (1982). Findings. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-42919-1.