Leon Kirchner
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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.
Life and career
Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and he was the founder of the Brooklyn, New York, affluence. At the age of four, he began his music studies. His family migrated to Los Angeles five years ago. He began composing as a student at Los Angeles City College. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles, to study with Arnold Schoenberg with the support of his piano teachers and Ernst Toch. Kirchner began graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and was given the George Ladd Prix de Paris in 1942. Roger Sessions taught Europe during World War II, putting Europe in turmoil. He returned to Berkeley as a lecturer and assisted Sessions and Ernest Bloch in theory at the end of the war.
Kirchner ruled Slee Professiorship at the University of Buffalo (succeeding Aaron Copland), professorships at the University of California, Yale University, the Juilliard School of Music, and Mills College, where he was the first Luther Bruce Marchant Professor from 1954 to 1961. He went to Harvard University in 1961, where he succeeded Walter Piston as Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music and taught until 1989. In 1967, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Quartet No. 2; 3.
"Unimpressed by fashion changes, idealization, the precious ore of art, is lost in the jungle of graphs, tapes, feedback, and cold stylistic minutiae," Alexander Ringer said.
Kirchner married Gertrude Schoenberg, a singer and scholar of Arnold Schoenberg (no relation), on July 8, 1949; the pair had one son and one daughter. He died of congestive heart disease at his home in Central Park West, New York City, in 2009. He was 90.