André Previn

André George Previn (Andreas Ludwig Priwin born:) (Berlin, 6 april 1929) is an American pianist, composer and conductor.

Before his family moved to Paris in 1937, studied Previn all at the Royal Conservatory of Berlin. After further study at the Paris Conservatory in 1941 the Nazis the Jewish family fled to the United States. Sweet Lorraine of Art Tatum inspired Previn to focus more to deepen in the jazz music .



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[hide] *1 Career  ==Career[ Edit] == Previn started his career at the age of 13 with radio recordings among other things with Hoagy Carmichael. At fifteen he gave a jazz concert in the Philharmonic concert hall of Los Angeles. His then impresario Laguna started a recording studio, for which Previn recorded his first record in 1945/46, among other things with the Willie Smith jazz musicians and Red Callender. Also a private composition of Previn, Sunset in Blue, was recorded there. He is counted among the best jazz musicians of both America and played together with Ray Brown and Dizzy Gillespie as Billie Holiday. For the trio album My Fair Lady with Shelly Manne and Leroy Vinnegar in 1956, he received the firstgold record in the history of jazz.
 * 2 private life
 * 3 Management
 * 4 compositions (selection)
 * 5 Award
 * 5.1 Academy Award (for best music)
 * 5.2 Grammy Award
 * 6 external link

Nowadays, Previn best known as conductor of symphony orchestras. He also conducted the music for several feature films, such as Kiss Me Kate (1953), Seidenstrümpfe (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959), My Fair Lady (1964), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975) and The Elephant Man (1980). ==Private Life[ Edit] == Andre Previn has been married five times. First with Betty Bennett, then with Dory Langdon, then from 1970 to 1979 with Mia Farrow. Along with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi he, now with Director Woody Allen is married. After his fourth marriage to Heather Sneddon, which ended in 2002, married Previn the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Later he wrote a Violin Concerto for her. They divorced in 2006.

Previn wrote a mémoire to his early years in Hollywood, called: No Minor Chords. published in 1991. ==Executive Board[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As a conductor he led these orchestras:

==Compositions (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Award<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="609" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Previn is knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1996 in the order of the British Empire and is since then Sir André Previn call. ===Academy Award (for best music)<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Grammy Award<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Houston Symphony Orchestra (1967-1970)
 * London Symphony Orchestra (Music Director: 1969-1979; honorary conductor: since 1993)
 * Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1976-1984)
 * Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1985-1989)
 * Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (musical director: 1985-1988; principal conductor: 1988-1991)
 * When he was 16 (Chief conductor: 2002-)
 * Guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (2006-2007)
 * Sunset in Blue
 * Three Little Words (1950)
 * Gigi (1958)
 * Anne-Sophie (Violin Concerto)
 * A Streetcar Named Desire (opera) (German: Endstation Sehnsucht), first performance on september 19, 1998 in the War Memorial Opera House of San Francisco.
 * Gigi (1958)
 * Porgy and Bess (1959)
 * Irma la Douce (1963)
 * My Fair Lady (1964)
 * Gigi (1958)
 * Porgy and Bess (1959)