Leonard Stein

Student bei Richard Buhlig
1935 - 1936 USC und UCLA (BA 1939, MM 1941)
1935 - 1939 Schüler bei Schönberg
1939 - 1942 Assistent Schönbergs, half bei der Fertigstellung einiger Werke Schönbergs, so
Structural Functions of Harmony, London, rev. 2/1969,
Style and idea, rev. ed., exp., London 1975,
Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, Models for beginners in composition, Fundamentals of Musical Composition, London 1967.

Ab 1946 lehrte er in Institutionen Kaliforniens
Er arrangierte und edierte viele Kompositionen Schönbergs für die Veröffentlichung, wurde später zum Herausgeber einiger seiner Werke:
Arnold Schoenberg: Fundamentals of Musical Composition, edited by Gerald Strang and Leonard Stein, London 1965.
Ebenso 1965 DMA für The Performance of Twelve-tone and Serial Music for the Piano (diss.).
Stein war 1974 - 1991 erster Direktor des Arnold Schoenberg Instituts. ab 1970 Pianist und Lehrer am California Institute of the Arts sowie 1975 an der School of Music at the University of Southern California, zu seinen Schülern zählt u.a. LaMonte Young 1955 - 1956

Publikationen:
Arnold Schoenberg Style and Idea Selected Writings Edited by Leonard Stein. Translated by Leo Black.

Artikel im Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute:
Volume I, No. 1 (October 1976):
“The Journal and the Institute”
Volume I, No. 2 (February 1977):
“The Opening of the Institute”
Volume I, No. 3 (June 1977):
“From the Director’s Desk”
"The Gurrelieder Fanfare Manuscript"
Volume II, No. 1 (October 1977):
“A Note on the Genesis of the Ode to Napoleon”
Volume II, No. 1 (October 1977):
“Toward a Chronology of Schoenberg’s Early Unpublished Songs”
Volume II, No. 2 (February 1978):
Foreword: “Evaluations and Expectations”
Volume III, No. 1 (March 1979):
Foreword: “Schoenberg’s Jewish Identity (A Chronology of Source Material)”
Volume III, No. 2 (October 1979):
Foreword
“Stokowski and the Gurrelieder Fanfare: Further Correspondence”
Volume IV, No. 2 (November 1980):
Foreword
Volume V, No. 2 (November 1981):
Foreword: “Tonal or Atonal?”
Volume VI, No. 2 (November 1982): Schoenberg in the Netherlands :
Foreword
Volume VII, No. 1 (June 1983):
Foreword
Volume VII, No. 2 (November 1983):
Foreword: Report on the NEH Summer Session, Schoenberg Research Award
“Gerald Strang (1908-1983)”, “Pauline Alderman (1893-1983)”
Volume VIII, No. 1 (June 1984):
Foreword: “Schoenberg’s Pupils”
Richard Hoffmann, Leonard Stein: “Reminiscences: A Schoenberg Centennial Symposium at Oberlin College”
Volume X, No. 1 (June 1987):
“Lawrence Morton (1904-1987)”
Volume XI, No. 2 (November 1988): Schoenberg in Chautauqua, Summer 1934 :
“Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt”


Zusätzliche Informationen:

Volume XIV, No. 1 (June 1991) im Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute:
Heidi Lesemann: “Leonard Stein: A Dedication”
Tributes to Leonard Stein