Robert Levin |

Robert Levin

An authoritative connoisseur of historical performance, an outstanding American pianist, musicologist and improviser, Robert Levin is today a professor at Harvard University.

The reputation of the “Mozartian” pianist has accompanied him for a long time. Robert Levin is the author of cadenzas for many of the composer’s piano, violin and horn concertos. The pianist published editions of the solo parts of the concertos with written melismas, reconstructed or completed some of Mozart’s compositions. His version of the completion of Mozart’s “Requiem” earned the approval of music critics after the premiere under the direction of Helmut Rilling at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart in 1991. The reconstruction of the Concerto Symphony for four wind instruments and orchestra is widely used today in world concert practice.

The musician is the author of many studies on the historical styles of piano playing, he also masters the technique of playing the harpsichord and hammer piano. Finally, Robert Levine completed and published many of Mozart’s unfinished piano works. His mastery of Mozart’s style is confirmed by his collaboration with such masters of historical performance as Christopher Hogwood and his “Academy of Early Music”, with whom the pianist recorded a series of Mozart’s piano concertos in 1994.