Henrique Luís Levy

Henrique Luís Levy (1829–1896), alternatively spelled Henrique Louis Levy, was a French clarinetist, composer and businessman. He immigrated to Brazil in 1848 and founded Casa Levy, a leading music store in São Paulo.

Biography

Levy was born on 10 December 1829 in Dehlingen, France.[1][2] He fled to Switzerland in 1848 to escape anti-Semitic riots before immigrating to Brazil later the same year.[1]

Levy originally settled in Campinas, where he became acquainted with the Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes.[1][2] He later moved to São Paulo, where he founded the music store Casa Levy in 1860. According to the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Casa Levy "became the city's leading music store and a center of musical life".[3]

Levy died on 14 August 1896 in São Paulo.[4]

Personal life

Levy was married to Anne Marie Teodoreth of Switzerland. The couple had three children, including Alexandre Levy (1864–1892) and Luís Levy (1861–1935), who were also musicians.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Porter, James. "Symphonic Poem and Orchestral Fantasy". Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination. University of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580469456 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Nogueira, Lenita Waldige Mendes (1997). Maneco Músico: Pai e mestre de Carlos Gomes (in Portuguese). Editora Arte & Ciência/UNIP. p. 63. ISBN 85-86127-17-5 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Don Michael Randel, ed. (1996). "Levy, Alexandre". The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674372999 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "São Paulo". Inter-American Music Review. 9: 100. 1987. ISSN 0195-6655 – via Google Books.
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