Description Leon Kirchner: Music For Orchestra (1988 Revision)(Full Score) Work for Orchestra commssioned in 1969 by the New York Philharmonic. Revised edition completed in 1988. Songlist Music For Orchestra
Score and Parts-This 14-minute piece was commissioned by Richard and Judith Hurtig and Viola and Richard Morse in memory of Felix Galimir. It was debuted at the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro Vermont in July 2002.
Leon Kirchner’s highly original song cycle for Soprano Voice and Piano The Twilight Stood consists of 6 songs based on 6 poems by Emily Dickinson: The Auctioneer He Scanned It The Cricket Sang Partake as Doth the Bee Much Madness and There Came a Wind. The cycle is 13 minutes of pure Kirchner very chromatic linear and frequently featuring irregularrhythms creating a truly unique haunti…
Set of Parts-Full set of parts for Kirchner's beautiful String Quartet No.2. This work won the composer the prestigious New York Critics' Circle Award.
A revision of the 1971 solo flute piece composed for flutist Paula Robison. This is the first posthumously published work of American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009).
