Leonard Bernstein
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Born August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author, and lifelong humanitarian. He was one of the most significant American cultural personalities of the 20th century. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history".
Filmography
- 2028National Theatre Live: West Side Story — Music
- 2026Concerto per Milano 2026 - Hayato Sumino plays Gershwin — Original Music Composer
- 2026Riccardo Chailly & Frank Dupree @ Lucerne Festival 2026 — Original Music Composer
- 2025OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna — Original Music Composer
- 2025The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music — Original Music Composer
- 2025West Side Story — Musical
- 2024Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris — Compositor, Songs
- 2024Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies — Compositor
- 2024P-FACTOR Piano Musical Duels — Original Music Composer
- 2024The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend — Original Music Composer
- 2023Candide — Lyricist, Music
- 2023Gustavo Dudamel at the Paris Opera With artists from the Académie — Original Music Composer
- 2023Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023 — Music
- 2023Maestro — Music
- 2023New Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève — Original Music Composer
- 2022OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod — Original Music Composer
- 2021West Side Story — Songs, Original Music Composer, Musical
- 2020Chita: A Legendary Celebration — Songs
- 2020Leonard Bernstein Mass — Music
- 2018BBC Proms: Bernstein's On the Town — Original Music Composer
- 2018New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway — Music
- 2018Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 — Original Music Composer
- 2018Trouble in Tahiti — Music
- 2018Wonderful Town — Original Music Composer
- 2017The Swingles con l'Orchestra Rai — Original Music Composer
- 2014Copland, Bernstein — Original Music Composer
- 2012Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 & Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli — Conductor
- 2010Bernstein's Mahler
- 2010Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker — Conductor
- 2009Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein) — Conductor
- 2008Bernstein conducts Bernstein — Conductor
- 2008Bernstein in Rehearsal & Performance: Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 — Conductor
- 2008Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 1,8,9
- 2008Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7 — Conductor
- 2008Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5 — Conductor
- 2008Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture — Conductor
- 2008Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein — Conductor
- 2007Beethoven: The Piano Concertos — Music Director
- 2007Candide — Writer, Music
- 2006Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem — Conductor
- 2006Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem — Conductor
- 2006Bernstein in Paris: The Ravel Concerts
- 2006Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate — Conductor
- 2005Candide — Songs, Lyricist
- 2005Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde — Conductor
- 2004Leonard Bernstein: Mass At The Vatican City — Writer
- 2003Leonard Bernstein: Candide — Music
- 2002Wonderful Town — Original Music Composer
- 2001Contender: Mastering the Method — Music
- 2001Trouble in Tahiti — Writer, Music
- 1998Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note — (archival footage)
- 1993Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music
- 1993On the Town — Music
- 1992Bernstein in Australia: Tchaikovsky
- 1991Candide — Commentator, Music, Writer, Lyricist
- 1991Debussy, Images pour orchestre — dirigent
- 1989Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide — Self - Conductor, Lyricist
- 1988Candide — Music
- 1988Leonard Bernstein: The Rite of Spring in Rehearsal
- 1986A Quiet Place — Music, Conductor
- 1986Beyond Picasso — Music
- 1986Candide — Writer, Music
- 1985The Making Of West Side Story — Self / Conductor, Music
- 1984Brahms The Piano Concertos — Conductor
- 1984Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli — dirigent
- 1981Leonard Bernstein's Mass — Writer, Music
- 1981Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde — Conductor
- 1978Beethoven Fidelio — Conductor
- 1978Bernstein Beethoven Overtures — Conductor
- 1978Leonard Bernstein: Reflections — Self, Original Music Composer
- 1977Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach — dirigent
- 1976Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 — Conductor
- The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein — Presenter, Writer, Creator
- 1975The Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner — Conductor
- 1973Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
- 1973Trouble in Tahiti — Conductor, Writer
- 1970Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein — Self / Narrator, Writer, Musician, Conductor
- 1968Čas slunce a růží — Music
- 1967Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution — Self, Writer
- 1961West Side Story — Original Music Composer
- 1960The Creative Performer — Writer
- Startime — Self, Writer
- New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts — Presenter, Creator
- 1958Wonderful Town — Songs, Music
- 1957Satchmo the Great
- 1957The Lark — Original Music Composer
- 1954On the Waterfront — Original Music Composer
- Omnibus
- 1949On the Town — Songs, Music, Musical
- Bernstein | Mahler Lieder
- Concerto Bernstein-Gershwin — Original Music Composer
- Joseph Haydn : Die Schopfung - Leonard Bernstein
- Mahler Symphony no. 3: Bernstein — Director
- What Makes Music Symphonic? (Young People's Concert No. 4) — Writer
Appearances as themselves (60)
- 2024Beatles '64 — Self (archive footage)
- 2024Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity — Self (archive footage)
- 2023The Only Girl in the Orchestra — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
- 2021Bernstein's Wall — Self (archive footage)
- 2018Leonard Bernstein: A Genius Divided — self
- 2018West Side Story, le hit de Leonard Bernstein — himself
- 2017JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala — Self
- 2016Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life — Himself
- 2016West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic — Self
- 2013Best of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades — self
- 2012Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Sibelius — Self - Conductor
- 2009Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould — Self (archival footage)
- 2008Karajan: Beauty As I See It — Self (archive footage)
- 2007Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5 — Himself
- 2007Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2 — Himself
- 2007Cello Concertos Haydn and Schumann — Self - Conductor
- 2007Mozart: Requiem — Self - conductor
- 2007Rostropovich Life & Art — Self - Conductor
- 2006Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, Symphony No. 39 - Leonard Bernstein — Self - Pianist and Conductor
- 20th Century Greats — Self (archive footage)
- 1993Glenn Gould: Extasis — Self (archival footage)
- 1993The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past — Self (archive footage)
- 1992Bernstein in Japan — Self - Conductor
- Clive James' Postcard from — Self
- 1989Ode to Freedom — Self / Conductor
- 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
- 1985Tanglewood: A Place for Music — Self
- 1985Tanglewood: So you want to be a conductor — Self
- 1985The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein — Self
- 1984Bernstein Brahms Symphonies — Himself
- 1983The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala — Self - Conductor
- Bernstein/Beethoven — Self
- 1979Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… — Himself
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
- 1977Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2 — Self / Conductor
- 1976Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives — Himself
- 1976Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal — Self - Conductor
- 1976The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology — Himself
- 1976The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax — Himself
- 1976The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics — Himself
- 1976The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity — Himself
- 1976The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis — Himself
- 1976The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth — Himself
- 1975Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5 — Self - Conductor
- 1975Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 — Self
- 1973Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 — Self - Conductor
- 1972Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction — Self (conductor and commentator)
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self
- Great Performances — Self
- 1970Bernstein In Vienna: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major — Self / Conductor / Pianist
- 1970Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony — Self / Conductor
- 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
- Das Sonntagskonzert — Self
- Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution — Self
- 1966Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti — Self - Interviewee
- Tony Awards — Self - Recipient
- Bambi — Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
- Mahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde — Self (conductor)