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This article is about the Robert D. Levin, the American pianist and composer. For the Norwegian pianist, see Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist). Robert Levin ( June 6, 1912 &ndash October 29, 1996) was a Norwegian classical Pianist and Composer

Robert D. Levin (born October 13, 1947) is an acclaimed classical performer, composer, and musicologist and the Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music

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Education

Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School, and Andrew Jackson High School, but spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Brooklyn Friends School is a Quaker school in New York City. Brooklyn Friends School (BFS is an independent college preparatory Quaker school serving a culturally Nadia Boulanger (September 16 1887 &ndash October 22 1979 was an influential French Composer, conductor, and Music professor Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city He attended Harvard, where he earned his A.B. magna cum laude in 1968, writing a thesis titled The Unfinished Works of W. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an Academic degree was earned A. Mozart.

Levin took private lessons at institutions such as Chatham Square Music School, Conservatoire National Supérieur, Fontainebleau School of Music in:

Academic career

Upon graduation from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at Curtis Institute of Music, then was associate professor of music and coordinator of theory at SUNY Purchase, where he was made full professor in 1975. The Fontainebleau Schools started in 1921 with the involvement of the United States in the First World War Louis Martin is the name of Louis St Martin (1820-1893 Louisiana politician Louis Martin (Swiss politician, President of the Jean Casadesus ( July 17, 1927 – January 20, 1972) was a French classical Pianist. Sir Clifford Michael Curzon ( 18 May 1907 &ndash 1 September 1982) was an English Pianist. Robert Casadesus ( April 7, 1899 &ndash September 19, 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French Pianist. In Music, solfège ('soʊlfɛʒ also called solfeggio, sol-fa, or solfa) is a Pedagogical Solmization technique for the In Music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and Rhythm, and interdependent in Harmony Stefan Wolpe ( August 25, 1902 &ndash April 4, 1972) was a German -born Composer. Eleazar de Carvalho ( 28 June 1912, Iguatu, Ceará &ndash 12 September 1996, São Paulo) was a Brazilian The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia Pennsylvania that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma Bachelor of Music The State University of New York at Purchase, also known as Purchase College and SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal, visual, and From 1986 to 1993, he served as professor of piano at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. A university school of music or college of music, or academy of music or conservatoire ( French, but used in British English) &mdash In 1993, he became professor of music at his alma mater Harvard University, a position which he continues to hold at present. In 1994 he was made Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and he was head tutor from 1998 to 2003 and in 2004.

Levin's academic career has combined teaching and tutoring performance, especially keyboard instruments, but also conducting; and musical theory, with an emphasis on classical music history. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard.

Contributions to composition

Levin has completed and reconstructed a number of classical works, especially unfinished compositions by Mozart, but also Johann Sebastian Bach. An unfinished work is a Creative work that has not been finished WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise"

His completions of several unfinished Mozart works, including the Requiem in D minor and Große Messe in C minor, are considered his most important achievements. The Requiem Mass in D minor ( K 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in 1791 The Große Messe ( German, lit Great Mass) No 17 in C minor K In the Mozart Requiem, he reconstructed an Amen fugue from Mozart's own sketches. John Eliot Gardiner commissioned him to write missing orchestral parts to five movements of Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, resulting in other important, though less comprehensive, works. Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC (born April 20, 1943, Fontmell Magna, Dorset A cantata (derived from the Italian word 'cantare' meaning 'to sing' is a vocal composition with an instrumental Accompaniment and often WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" As a performer, he is best known for his work as a piano soloist for Classical-Era concerti, and particularly for his "expert" handling of the works of Mozart. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The term Concerto (plural concertos or concerti) usually refers to a three part musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an Orchestra In performance, he is known for attempting to re-create performance practice from the time of the composer, such as improvising long cadenzas. In Music, a cadenza (Italian for cadence) is generically an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists usually

Levin has also composed several works, including the following:

External links

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