- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- August 25, 1918
- Place of Birth
- Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- October 14, 1990
Leonard Bernstein
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
movieWest Side Story
2025 · Musical
movieThe New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music
2025 · Original Music Composer
movieOSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna
2025 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend
2024 · Original Music Composer
movieJonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies
2024 · Compositor
movieBernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris
2024 · Compositor, Songs
movieBeatles '64
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieBeethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieP-FACTOR Piano Musical Duels
2024 · Original Music Composer
movieNew Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève
2023 · Original Music Composer
movieMaestro
2023 · Music
movieThe Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieJonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023
2023 · Music
movieCandide
2023 · Lyricist, Music
movieGustavo Dudamel at the Paris Opera With artists from the Académie
2023 · Original Music Composer
movieLouis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieOSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod
2022 · Original Music Composer
movieWest Side Story
2021 · Songs, Original Music Composer, Musical
movieBernstein's Wall
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieChita: A Legendary Celebration
2020 · Songs
movieLeonard Bernstein Mass
2020 · Music
movieParis Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2
2018 · Original Music Composer
movieBBC Proms: Bernstein's On the Town
2018 · Original Music Composer
movieTrouble in Tahiti
2018 · Music
movieWest Side Story, le hit de Leonard Bernstein
2018 · himself
movieNew York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway
2018 · Music
movieLeonard Bernstein: A Genius Divided
2018 · self
movieWonderful Town
2018 · Original Music Composer
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
movieJFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017 · Self
movieThe Swingles con l'Orchestra Rai
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieWest Side Stories: The Making of a Classic
2016 · Self
movieLeonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life
2016 · Himself
movieCopland, Bernstein
2014 · Original Music Composer
movieBest of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades
2013 · self
movieLeonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Sibelius
2012 · Self - Conductor
movieLeonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 & Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli
2012 · Conductor
movieBernstein's Mahler
2010
movieSibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker
2010 · Conductor
movieHaydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
2009 · Conductor
movieGenius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
2009 · Self (archival footage)
movieBernstein conducts Bernstein
2008 · Conductor
movieBernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5
2008 · Conductor
movieBernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7
2008 · Conductor
movieSchumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein
2008 · Conductor
movieBernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 1,8,9
2008
movieKarajan: Beauty As I See It
2008 · Self (archive footage)
movieBernstein in Rehearsal & Performance: Shostakovich Symphony No. 1
2008 · Conductor
movieLeonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture
2008 · Conductor
movieBeethoven: The Piano Concertos
2007 · Music Director
movieBrahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2
2007 · Himself
Cello Concertos Haydn and Schumann
movieCello Concertos Haydn and Schumann
2007 · Self - Conductor
Candide
movieCandide
2007 · Writer, Music
movieRostropovich Life & Art
2007 · Self - Conductor
movieMozart: Requiem
2007 · Self - conductor
movieBeethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5
2007 · Himself
movieMozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate
2006 · Conductor
movieBernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem
2006 · Conductor
movieBernstein in London: Verdi Requiem
2006 · Conductor
movieBernstein in Paris: The Ravel Concerts
2006
movieMahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde
2005 · Conductor
movieCandide
2005 · Songs, Lyricist
tv20th Century Greats
2004 · Self (archive footage)
movieLeonard Bernstein: Mass At The Vatican City
2004 · Writer
Leonard Bernstein: Candide
movieLeonard Bernstein: Candide
2003 · Music
movieWonderful Town
2002 · Original Music Composer
movieContender: Mastering the Method
2001 · Music
movieTrouble in Tahiti
2001 · Writer, Music
movieLeonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
1998 · (archival footage)
movieGlenn Gould: Extasis
1993 · Self (archival footage)
movieLeonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music
1993
movieOn the Town
1993 · Music
movieThe Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past
1993 · Self (archive footage)
movieBernstein in Australia: Tchaikovsky
1992
movieBernstein in Japan
1992 · Self - Conductor
movieCandide
1991 · Commentator, Music, Writer, Lyricist
Debussy, Images pour orchestre
movieDebussy, Images pour orchestre
1991 · dirigent
movieOde to Freedom
1989 · Self / Conductor
movieLeonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide
1989 · Self - Conductor, Lyricist
tvClive James' Postcard from
1989 · Self
movieCandide
1988 · Music
movieLeonard Bernstein: The Rite of Spring in Rehearsal
1988
movieCandide
1986 · Writer, Music
A Quiet Place
movieA Quiet Place
1986 · Music, Conductor
Beyond Picasso
movieBeyond Picasso
1986 · Music
movieThe Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
1985 · Self
Tanglewood: So you want to be a conductor
movieTanglewood: So you want to be a conductor
1985 · Self
Tanglewood: A Place for Music
movieTanglewood: A Place for Music
1985 · Self
movieThe Making Of West Side Story
1985 · Self / Conductor, Music
movieNight of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
movieBrahms The Piano Concertos
1984 · Conductor
movieJoseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli
1984 · dirigent
movieBernstein Brahms Symphonies
1984 · Himself
movieThe Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
1983 · Self - Conductor
tvBernstein/Beethoven
1982 · Self
movieLeonard Bernstein's Mass
1981 · Writer, Music
movieWagner - Tristan Und Isolde
1981 · Conductor
movieBenjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979 · Himself
tvThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
movieBernstein Beethoven Overtures
1978 · Conductor
movieBeethoven Fidelio
1978 · Conductor
movieLeonard Bernstein: Reflections
1978 · Self, Original Music Composer
Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
movieLeonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach
1977 · dirigent
movieLeonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2
1977 · Self / Conductor
movieMahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
1976 · Conductor
movieBernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976 · Self - Conductor
movieThe Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
1976 · Himself
movieThe Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
1976 · Himself
movieThe Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
1976 · Himself
movieThe Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
1976 · Himself
movieThe Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
1976 · Himself
movieThe Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
1976 · Himself
tvThe Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
1976 · Presenter, Writer, Creator
movieBernstein Gerhswin & Ives
1976 · Himself
movieMahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
1975 · Self
movieBernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5
1975 · Self - Conductor
The Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner
movieThe Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner
1975 · Conductor
movieTrouble in Tahiti
1973 · Conductor, Writer
movieSymphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral
1973
movieMahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
1973 · Self - Conductor
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
movieDas Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction
1972 · Self (conductor and commentator)
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Self
movieBeethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
1970 · Self / Narrator, Writer, Musician, Conductor
movieBernstein In Vienna: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major
1970 · Self / Conductor / Pianist
movieBernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony
1970 · Self / Conductor
movieKing: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Das Sonntagskonzert
tvDas Sonntagskonzert
1969 · Self
Čas slunce a růží
movieČas slunce a růží
1968 · Music
movieInside Pop: The Rock Revolution
1967 · Self, Writer
tvInside Pop: The Rock Revolution
1967 · Self
movieMan of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
1966 · Self - Interviewee
movieWest Side Story
1961 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Creative Performer
1960 · , Writer
tvStartime
1959 · Self, Writer
movieWonderful Town
1958 · Songs, Music
tvNew York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts
1958 · , Presenter, Creator
movieSatchmo the Great
1957
movieThe Lark
1957 · Original Music Composer
tvTony Awards
1956 · Self - Recipient
movieOn the Waterfront
1954 · Original Music Composer
tvOmnibus
1952
movieOn the Town
1949 · Songs, Music, Musical
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
tvBambi
1948 · Self
movieBernstein | Mahler Lieder
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Mahler Symphony no. 3: Bernstein
movieMahler Symphony no. 3: Bernstein
— · Director
movieMahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde
— · Self (conductor)
movieJoseph Haydn : Die Schopfung - Leonard Bernstein
—
What Makes Music Symphonic? (Young People's Concert No. 4)
tvWhat Makes Music Symphonic? (Young People's Concert No. 4)
— · , Writer
movieConcerto Bernstein-Gershwin
— · Original Music Composer