Leonard Bernstein

A richly illustrated book that, on the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth, focuses on his relationship with the musical city of Vienna, paying tribute to the great conductor and composer as a political figure while also exploring his Jewish roots.

Musically socialized in the synagogue of his childhood in Boston, educated at Harvard, and professionally at home in New York, Bernstein had a lifelong relationship with Vienna beginning in 1966: he brought the repressed Gustav Mahler back to the Viennese, his collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic became legendary, and he even mediated in Austrian domestic politics.

"I am enjoying Vienna immensely—as much as one can as a Jew. It is full of sad memories here, and you have to deal with so many ex-Nazis (and possibly still Nazis); and you can never be sure whether one of those shouting 'bravo' might not simply have shot you 25 years ago. But it is better to forgive, and if possible, to forget altogether. Your Wiener Schnitzel. Lenny" (Leonard Bernstein to his parents, Vienna, March 19, 1966)

With contributions by Leon Botstein, Werner Hanak, Barbara Haws, Silvia Kargl, Friedemann Pestel, Simon Posch, Oliver Rathkolb, and Danielle Spera.

The catalog was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum Vienna from October 17, 2018, to April 28, 2019.

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