Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein, born Louis Bernstein on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts (USA), and died on October 14, 1990, in New York, was an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

He was influenced by the works of Western composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Gustav Mahler. Bernstein is also well known for his long-standing artistic partnership with dancer and choreographer Jerome Robbins, both in theatre and on screen. Together, they collaborated notably on the ballet Fancy Free in 1944 and the musical West Side Story in 1957, both of which gained widespread fame through their film adaptations in 1961 and again in 2021.

Bernstein served as the music director of the New York Philharmonic for eleven years.

His life and career were portrayed on screen by American actor Bradley Cooper in the 2023 biographical film Maestro.