Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner studied in California at the Los Angeles City College as well as at the University of California at Berkeley. He had contact there with both Arnold Schoenberg and Ernst Bloch, both of whom influenced him profoundly on his thinking about music and his composing. In 1942, because of an award from the University of California for his compositions, his further study with Roger Sessions in New York was subsidized. After a three year stint with the armed forces, he returned to the University of California, where he completed his Masters of Music. He won many compositio...