Alexandre Levy

Alexandre Levy ( born November 10, 1864 in São Paulo, † January 17, 1892 ) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.

Life

His Jewish family came from France and was very active musically, his father founded the greatest music store in the city and was himself a clarinetist. Alexandre Levy was already twelve years of piano concertos and they told him a career as a solo pianist advance. Levy founded in his hometown initially the Clube Haydn, then the Clube Mendelssohn dedicated to the care devoted to classical music.

In the Brazilian music history, he was known as author of Variações sobre to Tema Brasileiro one, one of the first compositions that took up the musical traditions of Brazil. The most famous piece of it is Vem cá, bitumen. He was a pioneer of " romantic nationalism " that dominated the turn of the century in Brazil. Levy also composed pieces of the Brazilian tango maxixe. In 1887 he spent some time in Paris and studied with Emile Durand. In the Suíte Brasileira from 1890 for the first time the term appeared in Samba on a classical orchestral composition.