Heniot Lévy (19 July 1879 – 16 June 1945) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist of

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birth. A native of

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, he trained at the

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with Oscar Raif and

Karl Heinrich Barth Karl Heinrich Barth (12 July 1847 – 23 December 1922) was a German pianist and pedagogue. Life and early training Karl Heinrich Barth was born in Pillau, East Prussia (modern day Baltiysk, Russia). Little is known about Barth's early life, exc ...

, both pupils of Tausig; the latter also trained

Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein Order of the British Empire, KBE OMRI (; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American pianist.

. Lévy made his debut touring with the

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in 1898. He came to the United States in 1905, settling in

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. Lévy taught at the

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; he toured and performed with the orchestras of Chicago and

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. As a composer he wrote mainly chamber music, and he recorded a handful of

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s, including some of his own work. Levy died in 1945. He was the maternal grandfather of

Igor Kipnis Igor Kipnis (September 27, 1930January 23, 2002) was a German-born American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor. Biography The son of Metropolitan Opera bass Alexander Kipnis, he was born in Berlin, where his father was singing with the Berl ...

References

General references * * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Sixth edition,'' revised by

Nicolas Slonimsky Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the ''Thesaurus ...

, Collier Macmillan Publishers, London * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition,'' revised by

, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Schirmer Books, 1984 * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition,'' revised by

, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York (1992) * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Ninth edition,'' edited by Laura Kuhn, Schirmer Books, New York (2001) * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians,'' by

, Schirmer Books, New York (1997) * ''Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines, Volume 2: August 1949 – August 1952,'' H.W. Wilson Co., New York (1953) * ''Contemporary American Composers, A biographical dictionary, First edition,'' compiled by

E. Ruth Anderson Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907 – 24 November 1989) was an American musicologist, weather observer, and editor. Biography Anderson attended the New England Conservatory of Music from 1924 to 1931, again in 1934, and again from 1940 to 19 ...

, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1976) * ''Contemporary American Composers, A biographical dictionary, Second edition,'' compiled by

, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1982)

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