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Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.
Leon Kirchner was born on Jan. 24, 1919, in Brooklyn. His father was an embroidery manufacturer from Odessa. When Mr. Kirchner was 9, the family moved to California.
Sep 21, 2009 · Leon Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 24, 1919, and began studying piano at 4. When he was 9, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he was able to benefit from contact with European ...
Sep 17, 2009 · September 17, 2009 4:04 pm. The eminent American composer Leon Kirchner, who was also a pianist, a conductor, and an influential professor at Harvard University, died at his Central Park West apartment in Manhattan on Thursday morning. He had been receiving home hospice care for several weeks, and died of congestive heart failure, said Lisa ...
Sep 21, 2009 · Leon Kirchner, an American classical composer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3, has died. He was 90. Kirchner died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in New York.
Mar 22, 2012 · Leon Kirchner was born in Brooklyn on January 24, 1919, and died in Manhattan some 90 years later, on September 17, 2009. These proximate locations mask the geographical and artistic odyssey of his life. Raised in Los Angeles, he studied with Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg, later working with Roger Sessions.
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Leon Kirchner was born on January 24, 1919 of Russian parents in Brooklyn, grew up in Los Angeles, and studied with Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, and Ernest Bloch. Stylistically, Kirchner remained remarkably individual; earlier influences of Hindemith, Bartók, and Stravinsky soon yielded to a wholehearted identification with the aesthetics, if not necessarily the specific procedures, of ...
