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Russian-American composer
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Male
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Birth:
10 March 1884(Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine)
Death:
11 March 1947(New York City, New York, USA)
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Education:
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, Russia
The details
Biography
Boris Levinson (Loewensohn) (1884-1947) was a Russian-born American composer.
Levenson was born on 22 March 1884 in Ackerman, Bessarabia (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, then a province of Russian Empire). Levenson became a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, before becoming a prominent composer of his own right. A Bessarabian Jew, Levenson focused his work on Jewish folk songs. He traveled to the United States in 1920.
His musical output also includes a string quartet among other works. This was performed in a concert of his works in London, England in April, 1920.
He died in March 1947 in New York City.