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{{Short description|French pianist and composer (1882–1964)}}
[[image:Bmr 92 prix louis diemer Lazare Levy.jpg|thumb|Lazare Lévy]]
'''Lazare Lévy''', also hyphenated as '''Lazare-Lévy''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/jan06/lazare_levy_tah556558.htm|title=L’EcoleL'Ecole Lazare-Lévy|website= Music Web International|accessdate=15 June 2017}}</ref> (18 January 1882{{spaced ndash}}20 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout [[Europe]], in [[North Africa]], [[Israel]], the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Japan]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} He taught for many years at the [[Conservatoire de Paris|Paris Conservatoire]].
 
==Biography==
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He was conducted by [[Édouard Colonne]] at his début récital at the age twenty. He played [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]'s [[Piano Concerto (Schumann)|A minor Piano Concerto]] at the [[Concerts Colonne]]. [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], who saw him at one of his early recitals, considered him to possess "that rare union of technical perfection and musicality."<ref name="Evans" /> Saint-Saëns intentionally obtained a front row seat to show his support for the pianist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian Rees|title=Camille Saint-Saëns: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jm922PExav4C&pg=PT424|date=2 August 2012|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28705-5|page=424}}</ref>
 
In 1911, he played Book I of "[[Iberia (Albéniz)|Iberia]]" (Book I) of by [[Isaac Albéniz]], whom he admired. He also supported French composers [[Darius Milhaud]] and [[Paul Dukas]] early in their careers by playing their works.<ref name="Evans" /> Having an interest in new music, he also championed the careers of several of his students.<ref name="Haskins" />
 
He co-wrote ''Méthode Supérieure for piano'' when he was 25. He became an assistant of Diémer, who published the piece.<ref name="Evans" /> Beginning in 1914, he became a temporary teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. He became a professor in 1923 and taught there until 1953, except for the period during the war<ref name="Evans" /> when the Germans had dismissed him because he was a Jew holding an official position.<ref name="BC" /><ref name="Forte">{{cite book|author=Madeleine Forte|title=Simply Madeleine: The Memoir of a Post–World War II French Pianist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfK94v4QdNYC&pg=PA112|date=22 September 2011|publisher=Author House|isbn=978-1-4634-3385-7|page=112}}</ref> However, his position has been given to [[Marcel Ciampi]] and although he was reappointed in 1944, he did not get the same position after the war.<ref name="Evans" /> He was a leading performer and influential teacher, along with [[Alfred Cortot]], [[Isidor Philipp]], and [[Marguerite Long]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Timbrell|title=French Pianism: A Historical Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=taB23mJdp_0C&pg=PA78|year=1999|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-045-5|page=78}}</ref>
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During [[World War II]], he refused to play on the radio, which was controlled by the Germans.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann Labounsky|title=Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sx1t2RePS5gC&pg=PA116|year=2000|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-054-7|page=116}}</ref> He evaded capture as a Jew by using false papers, taking other names, and hiding out. Phillipe, his son, was a resistance fighter, who was captured and sent to Drancy concentration camp. The SS officer [[Alois Brunner]] tortured him<ref name="Evans" /> and he was murdered.<ref name="Forte" />
 
Among his pupils were [[Agnelle Bundervoët]],<ref name="BC">{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bundervoet-Agnelle.htm|title=Agnelle Bundervoët |website=Bach Cantatas|accessdate=15 June 2017 }}</ref> [[Jean Langlais]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Ann Labounsky|title=Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sx1t2RePS5gC&pg=PA60|year=2000|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-054-7|page=60}}</ref> [[Clara Haskil]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Siek|title=A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXQ1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|date=10 November 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-8880-7|pages=69–70}}</ref> [[Lukas Foss]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan D. Green|title=A Conductor's Guide to Choral-orchestral Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lIfhsSoI-9YC&pg=PA113|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-4720-0|page=113}}</ref> [[Solomon (pianist)|Solomon]], [[John Cage]], and [[Monique Haas]].<ref name="Haskins">{{cite book|author=Rob Haskins|title=John Cage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=id7zFYTtEfQC&pg=PA22|date=15 February 2013|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-943-9|page=22}}</ref>&nbsp;{{See LMST|Lazare|Lévy}}
 
Lazare Lévy died in 1964,<ref name="Evans" /> aged 82.
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