Leon Stein Biography Leon Stein was associated with the musical life of Chicago for half a century. A native of the city, he was born in 1910, and studied at DePaul University, where he taught for 47 years, ultimately serving as Professor of Music and Dean of the School of Music. He is the composer of more than one hundred published works, including four symphonies, two one-act operas, five string quartets, and numerous solo and chamber works. His music has been performed by the orchestras of Chicago , Boston , Detroit , and Cincinnati , among the more than 90 orchestras that have played his compositions, and his quartets were recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. He is also the author of The Racial Thinking of Richard Wagner , a book based on his doctoral dissertation, and the books Structure and Style and Anthology of Musical Forms .
Further information is available on the composer's website .
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