Leonard David Stein (December 1, 1916 – June 23, 2004)[3] was an American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.
[5] Stein later returned to the University of Southern California for post-graduate studies, receiving a DMA in 1965 with a dissertation titled The Performance of Twelve-Tone and Serial Music for the Piano,[1] which included analyses of important piano works by Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and others.
Highly regarded among peers and composers, such as Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, and Pierre Boulez,[5] Stein's pedagogy, which stems directly from the teachings of Schoenberg, was a historical turning point in the cross fertilization of European art music in the development of mid-to late 20th-century music in America.
The UC San Diego houses the Leonard Stein Papers,[4] consisting of a collection of his voluminous correspondence with major composers from the late twentieth century, including Ernst Krenek, Elliott Carter, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Milton Babbitt, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, et al.
[1][failed verification] Stein died of natural causes at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank[5] on June 24, 2004.