Heniot Lévy (19 July 1879, in

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– 16 June 1945) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist of

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birth. A native of

, he trained at the

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with Oscar Raif and Karl Heinrich Barth, both pupils of Tausig; the latter also trained

Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 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 piano rolls, including some of his own work. Levy died in 1945. He was the maternal grandfather of

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References

General references * * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Sixth edition,'' revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Collier Macmillan Publishers, London * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh edition,'' revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Schirmer Books, 1984 * ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth edition,'' revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, 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 Nicolas Slonimsky, 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, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1976) * ''Contemporary American Composers, A biographical dictionary, Second edition,'' compiled by E. Ruth Anderson, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston (1982)

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