Josef Rudolf Lewy (2 April 1802 – 19 February 1881) was a French-born

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player, and composer of music for the horn. During his career he lived in

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and

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Life

He was born in

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, the younger brother of

Eduard Constantin Lewy Eduard Constantin Lewy (3 March 1796 – 3 June 1846) was a French-born horn player. He lived in Vienna, Austria, for most of his career. Life Lewy was born in Saint-Avold, in the Moselle department of France. He had early musical training from h ...

, who also became a horn player. Their father was a cellist in the ducal court of

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. Josef had early musical training from his brother and, like his brother, he entered the

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, where he studied the horn with Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy."Lewy (Levy, Lévy, Levi), Familie"
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Online''. Retrieved 21 December 2024. About 1818 his brother obtained for him a position as a viola and horn player in the orchestra in

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. Recommended by Peter Josef von Lindpaintner, he became in 1819 a horn player in the Court Orchestra of Stuttgart. in 1826 he moved to Vienna, where he joined his brother in the orchestra of the

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. In the 1830s he made concert tours in Germany, France, England, Sweden and Russia. From 1837 he was in the Court Orchestra of Dresden; he returned to Vienna in 1851, where he was director of the horn school at the Vienna Conservatory. He retired in 1858 to , near Dresden, where he died in 1881. He composed works for horn and piano, including a set of twelve studies.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewy, Josef Rudolf 1802 births 1881 deaths French classical horn players German classical horn players Austrian horn players Conservatoire de Paris alumni 19th-century Austrian composers 19th-century German composers