Alexandre Levy


Alexandre Levy was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music and rhythms. His hometown grants a prestigious award in his name.
His Jewish family came from France and was musically active. His father, Henrique Luís Levy, was a musician who founded, a leading music store in São Paulo.
Darius Milhaud, in his ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit, borrowed a theme from Levy's Tango Brasileiro.

Selected list of works

Orchestra

  • Andante para cordas in E-flat major for String Orchestra
  • Werther, Symphonic Poem in E-flat major after Goethe
  • Marcha com coros, Orchestral Cantata
  • Hymne à 14 Juillet
  • Symphony in E minor
  • * Largo - allegro molto
  • * Andante
  • * Scherzo. Allegro vivo
  • * Allegro molto vivo
  • Comala, Symphonic Poem
  • Suite Brésilienne
  • * Prélude
  • * Dansa rustica: Canção Triste
  • * A beira do regato: Idyllio Sentimental
  • * Samba
  • Symphonic Poem
  • Oedipe, Orchestral Cantata

    Chamber Music

  • Fantasia brillante sull'opera 'Il Guarany' for two pianos, Op. 2
  • Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 10
  • * Allegro
  • * Andante
  • * Scherzo - Fugato
  • * Finale
  • Les jeux des Sylphides for four-hand piano
  • Scherzo valse, Op. 9
  • String Quartet in A minor
  • * Allegro comodo
  • * Scherzo
  • * Adagio molto
  • * Finale
  • Andante for String Quartet in E-flat minor
  • Rêverie for string quartet in G major, Op. 19
  • Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor
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  • * Scherzo
  • * Finale
  • En mer, Musical poem for four-hand piano
  • * Depart. Mer Calme
  • * Le Ciel s'assombrit. Tempête
  • * Clair de Lune. Idylle Fugitive
  • Romance'
  • Fantasie brillante for four-hand piano, Op. 5
  • Scène à la mer for cello and piano

    Piano solo

  • Fantasia para dois pianos a partir de temas da ópera O Guarany
  • Impromptu-Caprice, op. 1
  • Fosca, fantasia brilhante, op. 3
  • 3 Improvisations, op. 4
  • * Romance sans paroles
  • * A la Hongroise
  • * Pensée fugitive
  • Valsa-Capricho, op. 5
  • Mazurca n. 1, op. 6 no 1
  • Mazurca n. 2, op. 6 no 2
  • Recuerdos - Polca de Salão
  • Causerie
  • Cavalcante
  • Collin Maillard
  • Étude
  • Je t'en prie
  • Petite marche
  • Plaintive
  • Scherzo-valse, op. 9
  • Improviso n. 2
  • Trois Morceaux, op. 13
  • * Coeur blessé
  • * Amour passé
  • * Doute
  • Allegro Appassionato, op. 14
  • Variations sur un thème populaire brésilien
  • Tango Brasileiro
  • Samba
  • Schumanniana, op. 16
  • * Allegretto, ma un poco agitato
  • * Allegro moderato
  • * Lento
  • * Allegretto giocoso
  • * Moderato assai
  • * Allegro
  • * Moderato
  • * Allegro molto - Presto
  • ''Papillonnage''