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	Leo Ornstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born into a Jewish family in Kremenchug, a large town in the Ukrainian territory then under Russian rule, Ornstein reportedly had mastered the piano by the age of eight and was admitted to the St.
		In 1927, he wrote his Piano Quintet—an epic tonal work marked by an adventurous use of dissonance and complex rhythmic arrangements, it is recognized as a masterpiece of the genre.
		While Ornstein made no audio recordings, his playing was by all accounts world-class, and it is preserved on numerous piano rolls he recorded for the Ampico label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Ornstein (796 words)

	A composer across the century
		But by 1930 Ornstein was all but forgotten and while he continued to compose into the 1990s it is as if Leo Ornstein had disappeared off the face of the earth.
		Born in Russia Leo Ornstein was quickly recognized as a prodigy and attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
		Sometime between 1910 and 1913 Leo Ornstein's creative world was shaken and he began composing music of the wildest sort.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/12/ornstein.htm (481 words)

	La Folia -- Neither Bad Boy nor Bum: New Recordings of Ornstein and Partch
		Leo Ornstein was at the height of his performing career in 1918.
		Ornstein retreated from the concert stage in the 1920’s and founded a music school in Philadelphia with his wife, but kept composing into the 1990’s.
		Ornstein was a continuation of the romantic piano tradition — even if he did have a fondness for flamboyant gestures and colorful titles.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/covell/covell200302ornsteinpartch.html (2123 words)

	Tone cluster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By mid-decade, Ornstein was publicly performing what appears to be the first composition in Western music to thoroughly integrate true tone clusters: Wild Men's Dance (aka Danse Sauvage; ca.
		Ornstein's solo piano piece Suicide in an Airplane (n.d.), which makes incontrovertible use of tone clusters in one extended passage, is often erroneously dated "1913" or "ca.
		Leo Ornstein artist's website, including a list of properly dated works (many with scores on demand), prepared by his son Severo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_cluster (1165 words)

	Music Reviews
		One of the most important near-forgotten composers of the last century, Leo Ornstein died last year (2002) at what is believed to have been 109 years of age.
		The son of a synagogue cantor, Ornstein and his family fled his native land in 1906 (as did my own grandparents) to escape the anti-semitic pogroms, and settled in New York City where Leo began lessons at what later became the Juilliard School of Music.
		Thereafter, Ornstein devoted all his time to composing, completing his last work, the Piano Sonata No. 8 when he was in his late 90s.
	www.hometheaterhifi.com /volume_10_2/music-39-may-2003.html (1561 words)

	Leo Ornstein - Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 7 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ukraine born in 1892 or 1893 Ornstein studied piano in Kiev with Vladimir Puchalsky, Horowitz’s teacher, on the explicit recommendation of Josef Hofmann.
		Manuscripts were often left undated, he frequently had to be cajoled into writing his music down at all — it had been simmering in his mind for a long time — and his stylistic plurality meant that it has remained difficult, retrospectively, to assign a particular piece to a particular time.
		The Tarantelle of 1960 is saturated with Ornstein’s gift for gorgeous melody undeflated by irony, whilst A Long Remembered Sorrow from four years later moves from beautiful lyricism to questing and unsettled recall.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Oct02/Ornstein.htm (784 words)

	Ornstein, Piano Concerto
		Ornstein studied piano with Bertha Fiering Tapper at New York's Institute of Musical Art (now The Juilliard School), and she nurtured him intensely, especially in taking him on a couple of extended trips to Western Europe, where Ornstein first discovered the continent's emerging radical tendencies in art.
		After nearly a decade as a prophet of the avant-garde in the United States, Ornstein suddenly retreated from the concert stage in 1920, just as New York was on the cusp of launching a group of home-grown modernists.
		Ornstein settled down to teach piano at the Philadelphia Musical Academy and performed only occasionally–most notably for the premiere of his Piano Concerto in 1925 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the baton of Leopold Stokowski.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/95_96season/4th_concert/ornstein.cfm (721 words)

	Leo Ornstein: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leo Ornstein (December 2, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Ornstein was one of the most popular radical composers in the United States[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Ornstein gave countless performances in the 1910s[For more, click on this link] and 20s[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leo_ornstein.htm (994 words)

	WAC Newsletter, June 1998: Leo Ornstein
		Between 1914 and 1922 Ornstein stood at the forefront of the avant-garde and each new work was hailed as a further development in the freeing of music.
		Leo Ornstein's method of composing was also unusual.
		Leo Ornstein's works are available from Poon Hill Press, 2200 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside, CA 94062.
	www.wiscomposers.org /news/1998_06/feature.html (836 words)

	The Musical Times: Leo Ornstein 1892-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		n a life spanning eleven decades, Leo Ornstein came to prominence as a piano virtuoso, particularly of ‘advanced’ modern music, including his own.
		At the same time, his own radical, futurist’; compositions, such as Wild men’s dance, were compared favourably with those of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, so much so that a biography and analysis of his work, by Frederick H. Martens, was written when the composer was still in his twenties.
		Leo Ornstein: born Kremenchug, 2 December 1892 or 1893; died Green Bay, Wisconsin, 24 February 2002.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/0202/ornstein.html (194 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Leo Ornstein (1893-2002), of course, was the enfant terrible of the nineteen-teens decade, with his piano music that combined full-fisted cluster technique with a Rachmaninovian sensibility well before the emergence of Henry Cowell and before anyone had heard what Charles Ives was doing.
		As a result, almost everything Leo wrote except the orchestral music is available on line in PDF format (scores and parts), downloadable for free at http://www.otherminds.org/ornstein/list_of_works.htm.
		Ornstein died in 2002 at age 108 or 109.
	www.sequenza21.com /2006/01/leo-ornsteins-piano-quintet-up-close.html (970 words)

	A composer across the century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ornstein withdrew from concert life, took up teaching in Philadelphia and for all intents and purposes, vanished.
		In fact, it was she who often 'forced' Leo to the task at all.
		Leo Ornstein's son Severo (best known as a computer expert who contributed to the early development of the Internet) is engaged in producing a printed edition of the compositions; a biography is underway and several pianists have taken up the challenge of his music.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/12/original.htm (404 words)

	Leo Ornstein
		Ornstein (1893-2002) was recognized as a piano prodigy at an early age.
		These scores and further information about Ornstein and his work are available here.
		Ornstein is survived by his daughter Edith Valentine of De Pere, Wisconsin, his son, Severo Ornstein of Woodside, California, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Ornstein.shtml (643 words)

	village voice > music > by Kyle Gann
		Leo Ornstein, whose 90th birthday was celebrated here in 1982, has now entered his third.
		And way back then, Ornstein was already considered a major composer—a 1914 London newspaper had described his music as "the sum of Schoenberg and Scriabin squared." Populism and the Depression drove modernists underground in the '30s, and Ornstein gave up iconoclasm to teach and write mild romantic-impressionist music for the rest of his long life.
		However, Cahill celebrated not only Ornstein but Antheil (in honor of his centennial), and what an alternation of their works inadvertently showed was that, of the two, Ornstein's were by far the more substantial.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0050,gann,20586,22.html (621 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leo Ornstein, the Russian-born composer and pianist, has died aged either 109 or 108 years (his date of birth is disputed).
		Ornstein was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine in 1892 (or 1893).
		For the rest of the decade Ornstein continued to perform widely as a composer pianist.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=963&newssectionID=1 (258 words)

	Amazon.com: Leo Ornstein: Piano Quintet: String Quartet No. 3: Music: Rhonda Rider,Leo Ornstein,Lydian String ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ornstein's original contributions (and it IS an original work) are his extraordinary melodic thrust and a canny control of just how many notes to add to a harmonic field and still keep it focused and directional.
		Ornstein's inspiration is also evident in the rhythmic energy, which is nonstop yet always under control and modulated in masterly fashion.
		Leo Ornstein was still alive when this was recorded (around 1997), at which time he was living in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at the age of 104.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000030JT?v=glance (910 words)

	classical music - andante - modernist composer and pianist leo ornstein is dead
		Russian-born composer and pianist Leo Ornstein died peacefully on Sunday 24 February in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
		He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Alexander Glazunov, but in 1906 was forced (in the aftermath of the aborted 1905 revolution) to flee with his family to America, where he studied at what would one day become the Juilliard School.
		Ornstein is survived by his daughter Edith Valentine of De Pere, Wisconsin, his son, Severo Ornstein of Woodside, California, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=16117 (557 words)

	Recovery, Rediscovery - Eclectica Magazine — Jul/Aug 2003
		Leo Ornstein had one of the most extraordinary lives of any musician.
		He was a child-prodigy pianist in his native Russia, a refugee from anti-Semitism, an avant-garde American composer and virtuoso pianist of international renown in his early twenties who, at the height of his fame, voluntarily turned his back on the limelight and took sanctuary in increasing obscurity.
		Born in the Ukraine in 1892 or 1893, Ornstein made his public piano debut in 1911, having trained in the Russian pianistic style of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.
	www.eclectica.org /v7n3/making_time.html (1099 words)

	Ornstein: Piano Music
		When Leo Ornstein died in February 2002, the musical world lost a fascinating composer, quite possibly the oldest of all time (the year of his birth is uncertain, but he was probably 109 years old).
		Ornstein had an extraordinary life: he was a child-prodigy pianist in his native Russia, a refugee from anti-Semitism, an avant garde American composer and a virtuoso pianist of international renown in his early twenties.
		However, at the height of his fame he voluntarily turned his back on the limelight and took sanctuary in increasing obscurity, and having been almost entirely forgotten, he lived long enough to take satisfaction in the re-emergence of an interest in his music - of which this CD is early testimony.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67320.asp (616 words)

	HNH - Naxos Classical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Russian born composer and pianist Leo Ornstein died peacefully on Sunday, February 24 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
		Ornstein was recognized as a piano prodigy at an early age.
		He is survived by his daughter Edith Valentine of De Pere, Wisconsin, his son, Severo Ornstein of Woodside, California, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/Music_News22.htm (493 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Leo Ornstein Centenary Program, 1992
		Severo Ornstein, the son of the composer, is in the studio with Amirkhanian to provide commentary, while Leo Ornstein and another near centenarian, Nicolas Slonimsky, are interviewed by phone.
		Ornstein’s son Severo is in the KPFA studio for the centenary celebration.
		Excerpt from Ornstein’s Piano Concerto, composed 1925, with William Wesney, piano, and the Yale University Symphony Orchestra.
	www.archive.org /audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=other_minds&collectionid=OrnsteinCentenary (490 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: ornstein, leo
		Leo' Ornstein's Suicide in an Airplane is #8 on the aworks Top 10 Tracks of 2004.
		Ornstein's piece captures the raw power of early mechanical flight as well as its swirling, soaring character, by varying the dynamics as well as the depth of texture.
		Ornstein was born in the Ukraine and his family came to the US in 1906 to escape anti-semitism.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/ornstein_leo (1197 words)

	MSS 10, The Leo Ornstein Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University.
		Leo Ornstein was born in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug in 1892 or 1893.
		Ornstein’s reputation was not limited to the United States; in 1913-14, he undertook a European concert tour.
		Ornstein usually composed by dictating the music to his wife, so most of the manuscripts in the Ornstein Papers are in her hand.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/music/orn-col.htm (854 words)

	Recent Researches: A 51
		Leo Ornstein was a wildly famous Russian-American pianist-composer who in the late 1910s simultaneously outraged and riveted audiences with his unprecedented dissonant piano works and then unexpectedly surprised them when he dropped out of sight to pursue a quieter life of composition and teaching.
		In 1927 Ornstein returned to the spotlight with a new work, his Quintette for Piano and Strings (Op.
		Ornstein’s Quintette for Piano and Strings is an impassioned work that reveals the raw emotions of a proudly intuitive composer.
	www.areditions.com /rr/rra/a051.html (191 words)

	A+E Interactive: Mr. Coltrane, Meet Mr. Ornstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ornstein was famous for introducing American audiences to new music by Bartok, Schoenberg and Ravel; he gave the first American performances of Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit," one of the all-time finger-busters.
		All of this made Ornstein popular and also "notorious," according to Severo Ornstein, the composer's son, who introduced the performance of his father's quintet at the Trianon.
		But Leo was "a reticent person, fundamentally," Severo said, and decided he had had enough of public life.
	blogs.mercurynews.com /aei/2006/02/coltrane_and_or.html (2308 words)

	Amazon.com: Piano Music: Suicide on an Airplane / La Chinoise: Music: Ornstein,Hamelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Such was the life of the Russian-born American composer Leo Ornstein, who went--in a handful of years--from being a refugee from anti-Semitism to one of the highest-profile of the early-20th century Futurists.
		It is shameful that Ornstein sank into obscurity after a brief period of fame early in the century.
		When it comes to the composer Ornstein, this cd was little less than a revelation to me. While "influences of/similarities with" can be traced Ornstein's works are so individual that no collection of parts can even start to describe their sum.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006B1LA?v=glance (1776 words)

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