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| name= Leon Kirchner | image= Leon Kirchner.jpg | image_size= 210px | caption= | birth_date= {{birth date|1919|01|24}} | birth_place=Brooklyn, New York, USA | death_date= {{Death date and age|2009|09|17|1919|01|24}} | death_place=Central Park West, New York City, USA | nationality= American | occupation= Composer | spouse=Gertrude Schoenberg (1949–1999) | children=2 }}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.[1][2][3][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Life and careerKirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his music studies at the age of four. Five years later, his family moved to Los Angeles. He began composing while a student at Los Angeles City College. With the encouragement of his piano teachers and Ernst Toch, he entered the University of California, Los Angeles to study with Arnold Schoenberg.[9] Kirchner began graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley and was awarded the George Ladd Prix de Paris in 1942. As World War II put Europe in turmoil, he went to New York and studied with Roger Sessions. At the war's end, he returned to Berkeley as a lecturer and assisted Sessions and Ernest Bloch in theory. Kirchner held a Slee Professiorship at the University of Buffalo (succeeding Aaron Copland), and professorships at the University of California, University of Southern California, Yale University, the Juilliard School of Music, and Mills College, where he was the first Luther Brusie Marchant Professor from 1954 to 1961. In 1961 he moved to Harvard University, where in 1966 he succeeded Walter Piston as Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music and taught until 1989.[1][8][10][11] He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1967 for his Quartet No. 3.[12][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] According to Alexander Ringer, he "remained consistently individual, unimpressed by changing fashion where 'idea, the precious ore of art, is lost in the jungle of graphs, prepared tapes, feedbacks and cold stylistic minutiae'."[13] Kirchner married Gertrude Schoenberg, a singer, on July 8, 1949; they had one son and one daughter.[14] In 2009 he died of congestive heart failure at his home on Central Park West in New York City. He was 90.[15] References1. ^1 2 Alexander L. Ringer, "Kirchner, Leon". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 2. ^1 Robert Riggs, Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher, Eastman Studies in Music (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2010): 160. {{ISBN|978-1-58046-343-0}}. 3. ^1 Melvin Berger, Guide to Chamber Music, third, corrected edition (Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001) 243, 245. {{ISBN|0-486-41879-0}}. 4. ^1 David Ewen, The World of Twentieth-Century Music (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968): 421. 5. ^1 Anonymous, "Pulitzer Prize Winners", The Washington Post (May 2, 1967): A3. 6. ^1 Henry Raymont, "Moderns Crowd Marlboro Scene: Listeners Show Enthusiasm for Newer Composers", The New York Times (August 21, 1967): 39. 7. ^1 Peter Kihss, "Albee Play Wins Pulitzer; Malamud Novel Is Chosen", The New York Times (May 2, 1967): 1. 8. ^1 2 Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn, and Dennis McIntire, "Kirchner, Leon", Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, enlarged 8th edition, edited by Nicolas Slonimsky and Laura Kuhn. Vol. 3 (New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 2001): 1887. 9. ^Newlin, Book III, p.243, footnote. 10. ^1 CD liner notes of Leon Kirchner The Complete String Quartets, Albany Records, by Boston Composers String Quartet, based on conversations with and materials provided by Leon Kirchner, biographical sketch about the composer by Ellen Schantz. 11. ^1 [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=q3308|pure_url=yes}} Biography at Allmusic by Blair Johnston] 12. ^1 "Music". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-20. 13. ^Ringer, Alexander L. 2001. "Kirchner, Leon". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 14. ^"Leon Kirchner". NNDB (nndb.com). 15. ^Anthony Tommasini, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/arts/music/18kirchner.html Leon Kirchner, Composer and Teacher, Dies at 90]", New York Times (September 18, 2009).
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