Leonard Bernstein. Facebook/LeonardBernstein PARIS—A towering figure of 20th-century classical music, Leonard Bernstein is the subject of Bradley Cooper's much-anticipated biopic 'Maestro,' premiering at Venice. One of the best-known composers and conductors of all time with a musical range spanning from classical and jazz to rock and Latino, Bernstein was also a virtuoso pianist and even a television star. Here are five key things about the American maestro, who died in 1990 at the age of 72: ‘West Side Story' Arriving in New York freshly graduated from Harvard, the son of Ukrainian Jews who fled the pogroms shot to stardom in the United States in just three years, at the age of 25.

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