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André George Previn KBE (/ ˈ p r ɛ v ɪ n /; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films , jazz , and classical music .
Feb 28, 2019 · André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died on...
Mar 1, 2019 · A tribute to the versatile musician who composed for Hollywood, conducted classical orchestras and married five times. Learn about his early life in Berlin, his Oscar-winning career, his London years and his final decades in America.
Apr 2, 2024 · André Previn (born April 6, 1929, Berlin, Germany—died February 28, 2019, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor, especially sympathetic to French, Russian, and English music of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Feb 28, 2019 · André Previn, a celebrated musical polymath, died Thursday morning; he was a composer of Oscar-winning film music, conductor, pianist and music director of major orchestras.
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GRAMMY-winning composer and conductor André Previn has died. He was 89 years old. Previn's manager Linda Petrikova confirmed the news to NPR on Thursday. A composer, conductor and pianist, Previn famously directed the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1985 to 1989.
Mar 1, 2019 · André Previn may well have been the last of the great 20th-century American musical eclectics, the artists who, in the heady post-World War II cultural moment, could — and did — have it all. Mr....