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Byrd, William

KIRCHNER, LEON (b 1919 )

Kirchner was born in Brooklyn in 1919, the son of Russian Jews. At the age of nine his family moved to Los Angeles, which was in the 1930s to become a creative mecca with the influx of distinguished figures fleeing Nazi Europe. Family hopes for a medical career were dashed when Kirchner put his zoology major behind him and entered Arnold Schoenberg�s class at U.C.L.A. (University of California at Los Angeles). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California at Berkeley, where he had classes with Ernest Bloch. Awarded the Prix de Paris in 1942, he intended to go abroad, but because of the war settled in New York and studied with Roger Sessions. After army service he returned to Berkeley for graduate studies. He held professorships at the University of Southern California, Mills College, and, from 1961 until his retirement in 1989, at Harvard University.

Kirchner is a man of the broadest artistic and intellectual horizons, and an immensely perceptive teacher of both composers and performers. (This writer was his student at Mills College.) At Harvard he created a unique music analysis/performance class, which had an enormous impact on such budding celebrities as Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Chang, and James Oliver Buswell. A pianist and conductor of rare gifts, he has been guest conductor with major orchestras, and in residence at numerous festivals. He is especially proud of the Harvard Chamber orchestra, which he founded to perform traditional and contemporary repertoire.

Kirchner�s works include the opera Lily, two piano concertos, two cello concertos, three string quartets, Concerto for Violin, Cello, Ten Winds, and Percussion, Music for Orchestra I and II, Music for Flute and Orchestra, a song cycle The Twilight Stood, a monumental cantata Of Things Exactly As They Are, and other orchestral, chamber, and solo works. In recent years he has written a second Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1993), Duo for Violin and Piano (2002), and Piano Sonata (2003). Kirchner has received numerous major commissions and awards, including the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and the 1994 Friedheim Award of the Kennedy Center.

Discography
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Bach, J.S. / Palestrina, G. / Byrd, W. / Clarke, J. / Boccerini, L. / Haydn, J. / Mattheson, J.: Stokowski Transcriptions, Vol. 2	$9.99	Jan 27, 2009	Naxos Classics
	Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591) (Complete)	$29.99	Jul 31, 2007	Naxos Classics
	Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae, Book I and Ii (Excerpts)	$18.99	Apr 1, 2007	Chandos
	Keyboard Recital: Souter, Martin � Dowland, J. / Byrd, W. / Bull, J. / Farnaby, G. / Mundy, J. / Sweelinck, J.P. (The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)	$24.99	Jul 1, 2006	Gift of Music
	Holborne / Gibbons / Byrd / Farnaby / Peerson / Bull / Tisdale: Keyboard Works	$18.99	May 1, 2003	Chandos
	Byrd, W.: Keyboard Music	$16.99	Dec 1, 2002	Gift of Music
	Vocal and Chamber Music - Pickering, J. / Morley, T. / Byrd, W. / Dowland, J. / Allison, R. / Bachiler, D. (Elizabeth I)	$16.99	Sep 1, 2002	Gift of Music
	Choral Concert: English Renaissance - Byrd, W. / Weelkes, T. / Taverner, J. / Gibbons, O. / Tye, C. / Tallis, T. (Music of Great Cathedrals)	$16.99	Sep 1, 2002	Gift of Music
	Johnson: Elvetham Entertainment / Byrd: Fantasia / Dowland: The First Booke of Songs	$18.99	Aug 1, 2002	Chandos
	Keyboard Recital: Sempe, Skip - Byrd, W. / Bull, J. / Gibbons, O. / Morley, T. / Dowland, J. / Bull, J. (Pavana - The Virgin Harpsichord)	$16.99	Mar 19, 2002	Naive
	Byrd / Dowland: Vocal and Instrumental Music	$16.99	Jan 1, 2001	ATMA Classique
	Byrd: Music for Voices, Viols and Harpsichord, From A Time of Persecution, Vol. 2	$18.99	Aug 1, 1997	Chandos
	Choral Music (Sacred) - Palestrina, G.P. / Durufle, M. / Holst, G. / Barber, S. / Dvorak, A. / Farrant, R. / Byrd, W. (Visions of Heaven)	$16.99	Jan 1, 1997	Delos
	Byrd: Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals, Vol. 1	$18.99	Apr 1, 1995	Chandos
	Choral Music - Hildegard of Bingen / Palestrina, G. / Byrd, W. / Isaac, H. / Josquin Des Prez / Dufay, G.	$16.99	Jan 1, 1995	Delos
	Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music / Songs and Anthems	$9.99	Jun 28, 1994	Naxos Classics
	Choral Music - Palestrina, G. / Josquin Des Prez / Viadana, L. / Viadana, L. / Victoria, T. / Byrd, W. (Beyond Chant Mysteries of the Renaissance)	$16.99	Jan 1, 1994	Delos
	Byrd: Masses for Four and Five Voices	$9.99	Jul 10, 1992	Naxos Classics
	Keyboard Recital: Tilney, Colin - Morley, T. / Sweelinck, J.P. / Gibbons, O. / Bull, J. / Farnaby, G. / Byrd, W. / Schildt, M. (Go From My Window)	$16.99	Aug 23, 1990	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Chamber Music (Renaissance) � D'Estree, J. / Johnson, J. / Ravenscroft, T. / Allison, R. / Morley, T. / Byrd, W. / Dowland, J.	$16.99	Oct 24, 1987	Dorian Sono Luminus

Composer also appears in: (57)
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Mystic Voices - Divine Music From the Heavens	$17.99	May 25, 2010	Naxos Special Projects
	Blame not my Lute: Elizabethan Lute Music and Poetry	$16.99	Feb 23, 2010	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Waytes (English Music for a Renaissance Band)	$16.99	Jan 26, 2010	Navona Records
	Vocal Music (Renaissance) - Victoria, T.L. De / Lasso, O. Di / Josquin Des Prez / Senfl, L. / Rore, C. De / Utendal, A. (Factor Orbis)	$16.99	Aug 25, 2009	Ars Musici
	Wondrous Machine	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	QUILISMA
	Christmas with the Choral Scholars of King's College, Cambridge	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	QUILISMA
	Sweelinck: Master of the Dutch Renaissance	$24.99	Jan 1, 2009	LOFT RECORDINGS
	Silence & Music	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	GOTHIC
	Carols from the Yard: The 85th Annual Carol Service	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	GOTHIC
	Make We Joy	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	QUILISMA
	Sounds of Light	$16.99	Jan 1, 2009	GOTHIC
	Taverner & Tudor Music Ii: Gloria Tibi Trinitas	$16.99	Nov 18, 2008	Dacapo Classical
	Harpsichord (Eternal)	$8.99	Oct 28, 2008	Naxos Special Projects
	Christmas Music and Traditional Carols - Sing Choirs of Angels	$16.99	Aug 1, 2008	Gift of Music
	Music for Shakespeare's Theatre	~~$9.99~~ $7.19	Apr 29, 2008	Naxos Limited Edition
	Christmas Carols And Music - A Child Is Born	$16.99	Sep 1, 2007	Gift of Music
	Discover Choral Music	$9.99	Aug 28, 2007	Naxos Educational
	Musical Journey (A) - Scotland: A Musical Tour of the Country's Past and Present (Ntsc)	$9.99	Oct 31, 2006	Naxos DVD
	Grainger: Duke of Marlborough Fanfare (The) / Lincolnshire Posy / Roussel: A Glorious Day	$16.99	Jan 1, 2006	Klavier
	Discover Early Music	$9.99	Nov 1, 2005	Naxos Educational
	Early Music for Meditation	$9.99	May 17, 2005	Naxos Classics
	Art & Music: Vermeer - Music of His Time	$9.99	Mar 22, 2005	Naxos Educational
	Medieval and Renaissance Music - Arbeau, T. / Henry Viii / Campion, F. / Henry V / Holborne, A. / Dowland, J. (Music for A Great Castle)	$16.99	Feb 1, 2005	Gift of Music
	Vocal and Chamber Music (16Th-18Th Centuries)	$16.99	Feb 1, 2005	Gift of Music
	Music for A Great Cook	$16.99	Feb 1, 2005	Gift of Music
	Musical Journey (A) - London: A Musical Tour of London and Oxford (Ntsc)	$9.99	Jan 18, 2005	Naxos DVD
	A Tudor Christmas	$16.99	Sep 1, 2004	Gift of Music
	Primavera! - A Musical Bouquet	$16.99	Apr 1, 2004	ATMA Classique
	Music for A Great Garden	$16.99	Jan 1, 2004	Gift of Music
	Sweet Music for Bathing	$16.99	Jan 1, 2004	Gift of Music
	Christmas Feast (Seasonal Classics for Christmas Dining)	$16.99	Aug 1, 2003	Gift of Music
	Passiontide: Music for Solace and Reflection	$9.99	May 1, 2003	Naxos Classics
	My Heart's Desire: Love Songs and Ballads from the Elizabethan Age	$16.99	Feb 1, 2003	Gift of Music
	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir: Festival of Christmas (A)	$11.99	Nov 1, 2002	Chandos
	Christmas From Cambridge (Carols and Christmas Music From Queens' College, Cambridge)	$16.99	Mar 1, 2002	Gift of Music
	The Triumphs Of Oriana	$18.99	Feb 1, 2002	Chandos
	Tudor and Stuart Spirit (Music for Dancing and Dreaming)	$16.99	Jun 1, 2001	Gift of Music
	The English Tradition - 400 Years of Music and Song	$14.99	Oct 10, 2000	ARC Music
	The A to Z of Classical Music (2nd Expanded Edition, 2000)	$12.99	Oct 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	Shakespeare's Music	$12.99	Mar 8, 2000	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music	$9.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	World of Early Music	$19.99	Dec 13, 1999	Naxos Classics
	Star Of The Magi	$16.99	Nov 1, 1999	ATMA Classique
	Vox Virginalis - English Keyboard Music Under the Tudor and Stuart Reigns	$16.99	Sep 1, 1999	ATMA Classique
	Gloria: Classical Music for Reflection And Meditation	$9.99	Aug 1, 1999	Naxos Classics
	Stabat Mater: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation	$9.99	Jul 1, 1999	Naxos Classics
	Agnus Dei - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation	$9.99	Jul 1, 1999	Naxos Classics
	Elizabeth's Music	$12.99	Feb 4, 1999	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Ballads and Dances (17Th Century English) (Mariners and Milkmaids)	$16.99	Sep 4, 1998	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Serene Journeys Through Classical Music	$24.99	Jan 1, 1998	Delos
	Early Music (The Glory Of)	$9.99	Nov 14, 1997	Naxos Classics
	Introduction To Early Music (An)	$9.99	Aug 28, 1995	Naxos Classics
	Renaissance Masterpieces	$9.99	May 27, 1994	Naxos Classics
	Chamber and Vocal Music (16Th-17Th Centuries) � Reade, R. / Johnson, J. Ravenscroft, T. / Morley, T. (The Ladyes Delight)	$16.99	Feb 15, 1994	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Mary's Music: Songs and Dances From the Time of Mary Queen of Scots	$18.99	May 1, 1992	Chandos
	McFarlane, Ronn: The Renaissance Lute	$16.99	Feb 2, 1990	Dorian Sono Luminus
	Star of Magi	$24.99		ATMA Classique

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