Mischa Levitzki

Mischa Levitzki ( born May 25, 1898 in Kremenchug (Ukraine ); † January 2, 1941 in Avon-by-the-Sea/New Jersey) was an American pianist.

The son of Russian Jewish immigrants with American citizenship was born in 1898 during a home visit to his parents living in New York. He was at the age of three years of violin and at the age of six years of piano lessons and was seven years old in Warsaw student of Aleksander Michałowski. The following year he made his debut as a pianist at a concert in Antwerp.

In 1908 the family returned to New York, and Frank Damrosch took him to the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard School of Music), where he was a piano pupil of Sigismond Stojowski to 1911. Then he studied until 1915 at the Academy of Music in Berlin with Ernst von Dohnányi. After a concert tour through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Norway in 1916, he debuted at New York's Aeolian Hall.

As a result, he became one of the most respected concert pianists of the United States. Between 1916 and 1930 he made 12 concert tours in more than one hundred U.S. cities. In 1921, he appeared in Australia and New Zealand, 1925 in East Asia. In 1927 he made ​​his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham in London's Queen 's Hall. Then he stepped up to 1933 regularly in London.

In addition to his solo career Levitzki was also a respected chamber musician. So he led, inter alia, with the Musical Art Quartet, a Brahms program at the Town Hall in New York. In addition, he also composed several piano pieces. His first recordings were in 1924, the majority was recorded between 1927 and 1933 in His Master's Voice. His last recording was made in 1938 with RCA Victor. In January 1941, Levitzki died unexpectedly at his home in Avon -by-the -Sea from a heart attack. Naxos published from 2002 a complete edition of his recordings.

Levitzkis brother Mark Levine (1890-1971) was director of the National Concert and Artists Corporation, his brother Lewis L. Lorwin was known as an economist and his sister Bertha Levitzki as a pianist and harpist (Sandra Levitzki later).

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  • Naxos - Mischa Levitzki
  • Naxos - Levitzki, Mischa: Complete Recordings, Vol 1 (1924-1928)
  • New York Public Library - Mischa Levitzki papers, 1898-1957
  • Discography at Allmusic
  • Classic pianist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1898
  • Died in 1941
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