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ORNSTEIN, LEO BIOGRAPHY(1892 - 2002)
Although little known to todays audiences, Leo Ornstein burst upon the international music
scene in the early part of the twentieth century, and for a number of years was considered to
be one of the foremost composers of the time. As a pianist his concerts often featured works
that were little known in America at the time, including those by Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin,
Franck, Bartk, Schoenberg and Stravinsky as well as some of his own radical compositions.
This turned him into something of a cult figure. But in the mid 1920s at the height of a
highly successful concert career, he suddenly ceased performing and never again played in
public. A Morning in the Woods is a lyrical, thoroughly tonal, impressionistic piece which
dates from 1971, when Ornstein was in his eighties. It is one of a large number of romantic
works scattered throughout the composers improbably long compositional career.
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