Leonard Shure

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Leonard Shure (born in Los Angeles on April 10, 1910) was an American concert pianist.

At the age of 5, he began his career as a performer and then studied in Germany privately with Artur Schnabel.

Life

Shure graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in 1927, when he made his first appearance in Germany. He was Schnabel's first and only assistant until 1933.

Shure returned to the United States in 1933 and made his first concert appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Serge Koussevitsky conducting.

He appeared in virtually every major symphony orchestra in the United States, including the New York Philharmonic, the Detroit, St. Louis, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, and often with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell's direction.

When Shure appeared with Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1941, he became the first pianist to perform at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood. He completed Beethoven's sonata cycle with violinist Henri Temianka at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1946. He has collaborated with such well-known conductors as William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein, and Dimitri Mitropoulos. Shure's 1979 tour of the Soviet Union was a hit.

Shure taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Texas, Boston University, Boston University, and the Mannes School of Music in New York. Shure taught the first applied music courses at Harvard University in 1966 and 1967. He spent two summers in Jerusalem and four summers in Aspen, Colorado. Shure, who died early in life, was a member of the New England Conservatory of Music's faculty. See a list of music students by teacher: R to S#Leonard Shure.

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