Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner’s highly original song cycle for Soprano Voice and Piano The Twilight Stood consists of 6 songs based on 6 poems by Emily Dickinson: The Auctioneer He Scanned It The Cricket Sang Partake as Doth the Bee Much Madness and There Came a Wind. The cycle is 13 minutes of pure Kirchner very chromatic linear and frequently featuring irregularrhythms creating a truly unique haunting atmosphere. Intended for advanced (Grade 8+) soloists this piece is extremely challenging but rewarding at the same time.Leon Kirchner was an American composer ofcontemporary classical music. Kirchner's musical style is generally linear chromatic rhapsodic and rhythmically irregular; it is influenced by Schoenberg but does not employ the twelve-tone technique.

Set of Parts-Full set of parts for Kirchner's beautiful String Quartet No.2. This work won the composer the prestigious New York Critics' Circle Award.

A revision of the 1971 solo flute piece composed for flutist Paula Robison. This is the first posthumously published work of American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009).