Ernst Levy (18 November 1895 – 19 April 1981) was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor.
Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno.[1]
David Dubal describes him as an "unusual and powerful pianist" who made "grandly conceived" recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured "the very essence of the Faustian Liszt".[1] His work as a musicologist and teacher brought him to the United States, where he taught at colleges including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the New England Conservatory; he also became a United States citizen.[2] His students included composer Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs.[3] In 1966, he retired from academia and returned to his native Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in Morges.
Levy's book A Theory of Harmony was published in 1985 and, among other modern compositional concepts, describes the composer's concept of harmonic "undertones".
Levy's son was composer and cellist Frank Ezra Levy (1930–2017).[4]
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