title: Thirteen Anniversaries
text: # Thirteen Anniversaries
  
  Thirteen Anniversaries is a composition for solo piano by Leonard Bernstein, published in 1988, commemorating 13 people who played an important role in his life.
  
  ## Background
  
  Bernstein wrote this set after similar collections, Seven Anniversaries (1943), Four Anniversaries (1948) and Five Anniversaries (1949–1951). Each movement celebrates a person. Some movements are dedicated to a person close to the one commemorated. The work was given its first performance by Alexander Frey in Berlin in 1998.
  
  ## Movements
  
  The titles, referencing the persons, are:
  
  * For Shirley Gabis Rhoades Perle
  * In Memoriam: William Kapell (an American pianist who died young in a plane crash).
  * For Stephen Sondheim
  * For Craig Urquhart
  * For Leo Smit (an American composer)
  * For My Daughter, Nina
  * In Memoriam: Helen Coates (one of Bernstein's most esteemed teachers)
  * In Memoriam: Goddard Lieberson (former executive of Columbia Records)
  * For Jessica Fleishmann
  * In Memoriam: Constance Hope
  * For Felicia, on our 28th Birthday (and her 52nd)
  * For Aaron Stern
  * In Memoriam: Ellen Goetz
  