Zara Levina
Composer
1906 – 1976
Who was Zara Levina?
Zara Aleksandrovna Levina was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold medal. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1932, where she had studied piano and composition.
In her early age, Zara Levina admired the composers Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schumann. She mainly wrote choral works and, besides, also other vocal music, as well as two piano concertos and solo piano works. The inspiration of those five composers is evident throughout her works. The second of these piano concertos has been recorded, as has her 1928 first violin sonata.
Levina was married to the composer Nikolai Chemberdzhi.
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1906
Simferopol - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Education
- Moscow Conservatory
- Died
- Jun 27, 1976
Moscow
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on July 23, 2013
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