ORNSTEIN, LEO

ORNSTEIN, LEO
ORNSTEIN, LEO (1892–2002), composer. Born in Kremenchug, Russia, Ornstein emigrated to the United States in 1907. He was a piano prodigy, giving recitals of modern music, including his own compositions with colorful titles, which impressed audiences and critics as extreme examples of "futuristic" music. After a period of notoriety, he withdrew from the concert stage without ever having been recorded. He taught in Philadelphia until his retirement in the 1950s but continued to compose until 1990. His stylistically eclectic compositions, characterized by wild rhythms and jarring shifts in tonality, include piano works, chamber music, songs, and orchestral works.   -BIBLIOGRAPHY: F.H. Martens, Leo Ornstein: The Man, His Ideas, His Work (1918). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. Oja, Making Music Modern (2000), 11–24 (Jerold C. Frakes (2nd ed.)

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