Andre Previn , also Andre Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Privin , German Andreas Ludwig Priwin ; April 6, 1929 , Berlin - February 28, 2019 , New York ) - American conductor, pianist and composer. Winner of several Academy Award for Best Music, one of eight composers in the history of world cinema who have received this award for two consecutive years. Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE, 1996).
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| Birth name | |
| Full name | André previn |
| Date of Birth | April 6, 1929 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin , Weimar Republic |
| Date of death | February 28, 2019 (89 years old) |
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| A country |  USA |
| Professions | conductor , pianist , composer |
| Years of activity | since |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | jazz , classical music |
| Labels | and |
| Awards |   Oscar (1959, 1960, 1964, 1965) |
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Biography
Previn was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia Charlotte Epstein and Jack Privin. He did not receive a systematic music education. In 1937 , the Previn family fled from Germany to France, in 1941 from France to the USA, where in 1943 Previn received American citizenship.
He died on February 28, 2019 at his 90th birthday in New York. [one]
Career
From the age of 13, Previn began to act as a pianist, performing mainly jazz ; in 1945 - 1946 he made several jazz audio recordings. Since 1947 , Previn composed music for Hollywood films.
Previn's further musical career was related to academic music . Since 1967 , Previn has been a prominent figure in the world of conducting art. He headed such prominent orchestras as the musical director and chief conductor, such as the Houston Symphony ( 1967 - 1969 ), the London Symphony ( 1969 - 1979 ), the Pittsburgh Symphony ( 1976 - 1984 ), the Los Angeles Philharmonic ( 1985 - 1989 ), and the Royal Philharmonic (London; 1985 - 1991 ), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra ( 2002 - 2006 ). Among the recordings by the Previn conductor are three Tchaikovsky ballets, a complete collection of Vaughan-Williams symphonies, all symphonies and piano concerts by Sergei Rachmaninov (with Vladimir Ashkenazi as a soloist), many significant works by Prokofiev and Richard Strauss .
Cinema
At the same time, Previn worked a lot for the cinema as a conductor and arranger. His greatest successes in this area date back to the 1950s and 1960s, when Previn’s work in cinema was awarded the Academy Award four times: for the films “Gigi” ( 1958 , original music, also won a Grammy Award), “Porgy and Bess ”(adaptation of Gershwin ’s opera, 1959 , revised score, together with Ken Darby), Irma la Douce ( 1963 , original music) and“ My Fair Lady ”( 1964 , original musical episodes).
Previn turned to the original composition in the academic genre quite late. The most famous is Previn's opera Tram Desire ( 1995 , based on the play by Tennessee Williams , first staged in San Francisco in 1998 under the direction of the author) and a concert for violin and orchestra, written by him for his fifth wife, the famous violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter , who was 34 years younger than him (this marriage lasted from 2002 to 2006 ; of the previous wives of Previn, the most famous actress is Mia Farrow , whom Previn was married to in 1970 - 1979 ), and Dory Previn, nee Langan , famous singer. The author of vocal works (three songs on verses by E. Dickinson and others).
Among a number of American and international Privin awards, the Glenn Gould Prize he received in 2005 stands out.
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Links
- Curriculum Vitae
- Andre Previn on the Internet Movie Database
- Official site
- The second concert for piano and orchestra F. Chopin. London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Andre Previn, lead singer Arthur Rubinstein. 1975
Literature
- Greenfield E. André Previn. London, 1973
- Bookspan M., Yockey R. André Previn: a Biography. Garden City, NY 1981
- Ruttencutter H. Previn. London 1985
- Freedland M. André Previn. London, 1991