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Feb 05, 1906 Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russia Died on 27 Jun 1976 (aged 70)
Ukrainian composer and pianist
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About Zara Levina
- Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (Russian: ???? ????????????? ??????; February 5, 1906, Simferopol, Russian Empire — June 27, 1976, Moscow) was a Soviet 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 (mostly romances, then children songs) 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.
- Both of her piano concertos have been recorded, as has her 1928 first violin sonata (by David Oistrakh). Levina was married to the composer Nikolai Chemberdzhi (1903–1948).
- Her grandson is the pianist Alexander Melnikov.
