André Previn

André Previn (2012)

André George Previn (born April 6, 1929 as Andreas Ludwig Priwin in Berlin ; † February 28, 2019 in New York City ) was a German- American pianist , composer and conductor .

Life

origin

André Previn was born as the third child of the lawyer Jakob Priwin (in later American exile he called himself Jack) and his wife Charlotte, b. Epstein, born in Berlin. Over the year of birth, there are conflicting reports (1929 and 1930), also of Previn itself. Priwin family had in their emigration in 1938 before the Nazis to leave everything behind, including documents such as birth certificates. However, more evidence points to 1929 as the year of birth. Previn had two older siblings: Steve Previn (born as Stefan Priwin, 1925–1993), who later mainly worked in production for film and television, and the sister Leonora (1927–1959).

The current spelling of the family name was adopted in exile by American relatives, including Charles Previn , a second cousin of Previn's father, who was music director at Universal in Hollywood from 1936 to 1944 . André Previn had been a US citizen since 1943.

education

André Previn received his first music lessons from his father, an amateur musician. From 1936 to 1938 Previn studied at the Stern Conservatory (renamed the Conservatory of the Reich Capital Berlin by the National Socialists when Previn was studying ), among other things, piano with Rudolf Breithaupt .

In autumn 1938 the Jewish Priwin family fled Nazi persecution to Paris . There Previn was enrolled for a year as a student at the Paris Conservatory , where he studied improvisation with Marcel Dupré (probably as a guest auditor ("auditeur") in Dupré's organ class). In 1939 the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles . Previn's teachers in Los Angeles and San Francisco included Max Rabinowitsch, Joseph Achron , Ernst Toch , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Pierre Monteux , and his other patrons were interpreters such as Jascha Heifetz (a friend of the family) and Joseph Szigeti , who trained Previn in chamber music .

In no small measure, however, Previn was self-taught , especially as a composer, orchestrator, conductor and jazz pianist . As a school, he mainly referred to the production processes in Hollywood, where he was under contract from 1946. This enabled him not only to have a constant exchange with colleagues such as Miklós Rózsa , Hugo Friedhofer or Conrad Salinger , but also to constantly learn through action . He enjoyed a special reputation as a pianist and as an excellent sight-reading player , which suited his career as a conductor from the sixties. Previn composed all his life with music paper and pen at his desk, without the aid of the piano or music notation programs , in order to be able to get his own idea of the sound of the composition.

Career

André Previn (1973)

Art Tatum's Sweet Lorraine got Previn into jazz. At the age of thirteen Previn began his career with radio recordings, among others with Hoagy Carmichael . At fifteen he gave a jazz concert in the concert hall of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . His then impresario Laguna then founded a record company, for which Previn made his first recordings in 1945/46, among others with jazz musicians such as Willie Smith and Red Callender . Previn's own compositions such as Sunset in Blue were also recorded . He was one of the top jazz musicians in the United States and played with Ray Brown , Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday . In 1956, he received the first gold record in jazz history for the trio album My Fair Lady with Shelly Manne and Leroy Vinnegar .

Previn also worked as a film composer , for example for the music for Three Little Words (1950), which he also conducted. The music for the film Catered Affair (The Catered Affair) (1956) also comes from him as the music for the film comedy Gigi (1958), for which he one of his four Oscars awarded for film music. The music for the film comedy Eins, Zwei, Drei (1961) was also by Previn.

He has also conducted film music, such as Act of Violence (1948), A Pampered Beast (1953), Kiss Me, Kätchen (1953), Silk Stockings (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959), My Fair Lady (1964), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975), The Elephant Man (1980).

Previn was best known as a conductor of symphonic orchestras . His orchestral director posts were:

Houston Symphony Orchestra (1967–1969)
London Symphony Orchestra (Music Director: 1969–1979; Conductor Laureate: since 1993)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1976–1984)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1985–1989)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Music Director: 1985–1988; Principal Conductor: 1988–1991)
Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester (conductor: 2002–2006)

Previn supplemented his work for classical music with a diverse composition . His opera Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire) premiered on September 19, 1998 at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. He wrote his violin concerto (2002) for Anne-Sophie Mutter .

In 1996, Previn was awarded the Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II ; in 2005 he received the Glenn Gould Prize . At the end of March 2011 he received the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany from the German Consul General in New York . In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Marriages and children

Previn was married five times and was the father or adoptive father of a total of nine children.

His first marriage to the jazz singer Betty Bennett , whom he had met during his military service in San Francisco , lasted from 1952 to 1957. Previn had been transferred there in 1952. It was a fortunate coincidence, not only in a private sense. During his military service Previn was able to take conducting lessons there for some time from Pierre Monteux , director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra since 1935 . At the same time his wife and Chet Baker , a comrade from the military, introduced him to the local West Coast jazz scene . Both experiences were to significantly shape Previn's further artistic path. His marriage to Bennett had two daughters. Bennett and Previn also worked together on several jazz projects on stage and in the recording studio, documented by the albums Betty Bennett (1953) and Nobody Else but Me. Betty Bennett Sings the Arrangements of Shorty Rogers & André Previn (1955) . During the 1990s, Previn repeatedly toured and recorded ensembles with jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe , Bennett's later husband and stepfather of Previn's daughters.

Previn's second marriage to Dory Langdon , which lasted from 1959 to 1970, remained childless. Dory and André Previn wrote numerous songs together for films and for albums by jazz and pop artists like Doris Day during the late 1950s and 1960s . Her songs The Faraway Part of Town (from the movie Pepe ) and A Second Chance (from the movie Two for the Seesaw ) were nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Original Song in 1960 and 1962, respectively. Their greatest mutual success was the piece (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls (1967, from the film of the same name), which, in the version by Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach, reached number 2 on the major American hit parade, the Billboard Hot 100 . The marriage broke up in 1968 when Previn started dating Mia Farrow . Since Dory kept the surname Previn and experienced a very successful phase as a singer / songwriter at the beginning of the 1970s , which was based primarily on autobiographical, the separation-processing songs such as Beware of Young Girls , the type of separation remained in the headlines for a long time. The late orchestral song The Magic Number (1997) acts as an act of reconciliation .

André Previn and Mia Farrow married in 1970. The marriage lasted until 1979. Both occasionally worked together artistically, for example in 1973 for a recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf op. 67 with Farrow as the narrator. Together they have three biological children and three adopted children. The daughter Soon-Yi, adopted jointly by Previn and Farrow, is now married to the director Woody Allen , who was also in a relationship with Mia Farrow after Farrow's divorce from Previn.

From 1982 to 1999 Previn was married to Heather Hales. Their son Lukas (* 1984) is also a professional musician as a guitarist in punk and rock .

From 2002 to 2006 Previn was married to the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for the fifth time . Alongside the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she has become the most important interpreter and commissioner of his late art music. Her violin concerto, which she premiered in 2002, bears her name. She performed six of Previn's compositions for the first time publicly between 2001 and 2012. Both have also produced several sound recordings together, both of Previn's compositions and works by third parties such as the violin concertos by Leonard Bernstein , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Peter Tschaikowsky and Jean Sibelius . They performed regularly together.

Compositions

Catalog raisonné

Previn has written film scores (including numerous songs), jazz pieces, and art music . Among his earliest compositions, which have been handed at least the genus to include some study works from the mid-1940s (clarinet sonata, string quartet, Rhapsody for violin and orchestra and some art songs). These pieces were created parallel to his first work in Hollywood (from 1946) and his first jazz recordings (from 1945). For a complete catalog of works including premiere dates, locations and performers as well as names and sources of lost works (especially early chamber and orchestral music), abandoned projects (such as the opera Silk or the film music for Goodbye, Mr. Chips ), rejected pieces ( like the film music for See No Evil ) and withdrawn compositions (like the cello concerto No. 1 ) see Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience , Stuttgart 2012, pp. 295-319.

Operas

A Streetcar Named Desire (1997, premiered in San Francisco 1998)
Brief Encounter (2007, premiered in Houston 2009)

theatre

A Party with Betty Comden & Adolph Green (1958) - a revue based on texts by Previn to lyrics by Comden & Green

Coco (premiered in New York in 1969) - a musical with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

The Good Companions (premiered in London 1974) - a musical based on a book by Ronald Harwood with texts by Johnny Mercer

Incidental music for Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (premiered in London 1977) - a piece for actors and orchestra by Tom Stoppard

Orchestral music (selection)

Overture to a Comedy (premiered in Los Angeles in 1963)
Cello Concerto No. 1 (premiered in Houston 1968)
Concert for guitar, jazz trio and orchestra (premiered in London in 1971)
Principals for orchestra (premiered in Pittsburgh 1980)
Reflections for cor anglais and orchestra (premiered in Saratoga Springs 1981)
Piano Concerto (premiered in London 1985)
Diversions for orchestra (premiered in Salzburg 2000)
Violin Concerto “ Anne-Sophie ” (premiered in Boston 2002)
Night Thoughts for orchestra (premiered in Sacramento 2006)
Double Concerto for Violin, Double Bass and Orchestra (premiered in Boston 2007)
Harp Concerto (premiered in Pittsburgh 2007)
Owls for orchestra (premiered in Boston 2008)
Double Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (premiered in New York 2009)
Cello Concerto No. 2 (premiered in Leipzig 2011)
Triple Concerto for horn, trumpet and tuba (premiered in Pittsburgh 2012)
Music for Boston for orchestra (premiered at Tanglewood 2012)
Concerto for violin and strings (premiered in Trondheim 2012)
Music for Wind Orchestra (No Strings Attached) (premiered in Rochester / NY 2014)
Double Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra (premiered in Cincinnati 2014)
Can Spring Be Far Behind? for orchestra (premiered in Greensboro / NC 2016)
Almost an Overture for orchestra (premiered in Newport / RI 2017)

Chamber music (selection)

Four Outings for Brass (premiered in London 1974)
Two Little Serenades for violin and piano (first performed in New York 1974)
Peaches for flute and piano (ca.1978)
Triolet for Brass (around 1985)
A Wedding Waltz for 2 oboes and piano (ca.1986)
Cello Sonata (first performed in Amsterdam 1993)
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon (first performed in New York 1996)
Violin Sonata (No. 2) Vineyard (first performed in New York 1996)
Bassoon Sonata (first performed in New York in 1999)
Tango Song and Dance for violin and piano (premiered in Lucerne 2001)
String Quartet (with soprano in the third movement) (premiered in New York 2003)
Piano Trio No. 1 (premiered in New York in 2009)
Clarinet Sonata (premiered in Prague 2010)
Octet for Eleven (premiered in Boston 2010)
Clarinet Quintet (premiered in Boston 2011)
Piano Trio No. 2 (premiered in New York 2012)
Violin Sonata No. 3 (premiered in New York 2013)
Nonet (premiered in Edinburgh 2015)
Morning Rain and Warm Evening for violin and piano (premiere still open)

Piano music (selection)

Impressions for Piano (ca.1964)
Paraphrase on a Theme of William Walton (first performed in London 1973)
Invisible drummer. Five Preludes (premiered in Liverpool 1974)
Five Pages from My Calendar (ca.1978)
Matthew's Piano Book (ca.1979)
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (approx. 1990)

Songs and song cycles

Five Songs , lyrics by Philip Larkin (premiered in London in 1977)
Honey and Rue for Soprano, Jazz Band and Orchestra, texts by Toni Morrison (first performed in New York 1992)
Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid , lyrics by Michael Ondaatje (first performed in Tanglewood 1994)
Four Songs , lyrics by Toni Morrison (first performed in New York 1994)
Vocalise (premiered in Tanglewood 1995)
Three Dickinson Songs , lyrics by Emily Dickinson (premiered in Quebec 1999)
The Giraffes Go to Hamburg , text by Karen Blixen (premiered in Newark 2000)
Four Songs , lyrics by Philip Larkin and William Carlos Williams (premiered in New York in 2004)
Seven songs , lyrics by Theodor Storm (US premiere in San Francisco 2006)

Film music (selection)

Own compositions

1949: The Sun Comes Up
1949 stretched to breaking point (Tension)
1953: The Girl Who Had Everything
1955: Stadt in Angst (Bad Day at Black Rock)
1955: Mostly cheerful (It's Always Fair Weather)
1956: Invitation to the Dance (Invitation to the Dance) - Music to the second scene, Ring Around the Rosy , Previn
1957: Why did I say yes? (Designing Woman)
1960: Elmer Gantry
1960: The Subterraneans
1961: All in a Night's Work
1961: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
1961: Eins, Zwei, Drei (One, two, three)
1962: Long Day's Journey into Night
1962: Two for the Seesaw
1964: The Black Circle (Dead Ringer)
1964: Kiss Me, Fool (Kiss Me, Stupid)
1965: Damn, Sweet World (Inside Daisy Clover)

Adaptations of film music / songs by third parties for the film

1949: The Secret Garden (The Secret Garden) - is based on music by Bronislaw Kaper
1950: Three little words (Three Little Words) - based on songs by the composer Harry Ruby
1958: Gigi - based on Frederick Loewe's original score for the film
1967: Modern Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie) - based on songs by the composers Harry Akst, Zez Confrey , Benny Davis, George Gershwin , Georg Friedrich Händel , James F. Hanley, Jimmy Van Heusen , Raymond Hubbell, MK Jerome, Sylvia Neufeld, Jay Thompson and Harry Warren, with additional interludes by Elmer Bernstein

Adaptations of musicals or operas by third parties for the film

1953: Kiss Me, Kate - based on Cole Porter 's musical of the same name

1953: Kismet - based on Cole Porter's Robert Wrights / George Forrest musical of the same name

1957: silk stockings (Silk Stockings) - the same name by Cole Porter Musical

1959: Porgy and Bess - based on George Gershwin 's opera of the same name

1960: Bells Are Ringing - based on Jule Styne 's musical of the same name

1963: Irma la Douce - based on Marguerite Monnot 's musical of the same name

1964: My Fair Lady - based on Frederick Loewe 's musical of the same name

1969: The wind moves westward (Paint Your Wagon) - based on Frederick Loewe's musical of the same name

1973: Jesus Christ Superstar - based on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's musical of the same name

Adaptations of classical music for the film

1970: The Music Lovers - adaptation of the music of Peter Tchaikovsky
1975: Rollerball - adaptation of music by Johann Sebastian Bach , Dmitri Schostakowitsch , and Peter Tchaikovsky (with additional pieces by Previn: Executive Party and Executive Party Dance )

Jazz and pop songs (from soundtracks or from jazz albums - selection)

Like Young , text of the song version: Paul Francis Webster (1959, from Previn's album Like Young. Secret Songs for Young Lovers - recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Perry Como , among others )

Why Are We Afraid? , Text of the song version: Dory Previn (1960, for the film The Subterraneans - recorded by André Previn (for the soundtrack) and Art Pepper , among others )

The Faraway Part of Town and That's How It Went, All Right , lyrics by Dory Previn (1960, for the film Pepe - The Faraway Part of Town wassungby Judy Garland in the filmand received an Oscar nomination for "Best Original") Song of 1960 "; That's How It Went, All Right was in the film by Bobby Darin - with Previn as piano accompanist (pictured)

A Second Chance , text by Dory Previn (1962, for the film Two for the Seesaw , Oscar nomination in the category "Best Original Song of 1962")

You're Gonna Hear from Me , The Circus Is a Wacky World , lyrics by Dory Previn (1965, for the film Inside Daisy Clover - You're Gonna Hear From Me was recorded by Shirley Bassey , Bill Evans (twice), Ella , among others Fitzgerald , André Previn (twice), Diana Ross and the Supremes , Frank Sinatra , Barbra Streisand , Stanley Turrentine , Scott Walker and Andy Williams )

Livin 'alone , text of the song version: Dory Previn (1966, for the film Harper - recorded by André Previn (for the soundtrack))

(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls , It's Impossible , Come Live with Me , I'll Plant My Own Tree and Give a Little More , Texts by Dory Previn (1967, for the film Valley of the Dolls - (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls was recorded by Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach , Gladys Knight and the Pips and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles , among others )

The First Thing You Know , A Million Miles Away Behind the Door , The Gospel of No Name City , Best Things and Gold Fever , Texts by Alan Jay Lerner (1969, for the film Paint Your Wagon )

Discography

Previn has produced hundreds of records as a pianist and conductor since 1945: film soundtracks, jazz albums, easy listening records, recordings of classical music and his own art music compositions. There are also numerous third-party recordings of Previn's works. His recordings of symphonic works by Rachmaninov , Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams as well as the ballets by Tchaikovsky are particularly successful . A comprehensive discography (including LP / CD numbers) can be found in Frédéric Döhl's book on André Previn.

Discographic selection

1954: Collaboration - with Shorty Rogers and Bud Shank , Jimmy Giuffre , Bob Cooper , Shelly Manne a. a.
1957: Double Play! - with Russ Freeman (piano) and Shelly Manne (drums)
1958: Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke
1958: Pal Joey - with Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne
1958: Secret Songs for Young Lovers - with David Rose & his Orchestra
1959: West Side Story - with Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne
1960: A Touch of Elegance - with Red Mitchell and Frank Capp
1960: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays - with Dinah Shore (vocals), Red Mitchell (bass) and Frank Capp (drums)
1962: Duet - with Doris Day (vocals), Red Mitchell (bass) and Frank Capp (drums)
1983: Nice Work If You Can Get It - with Ella Fitzgerald (vocals) and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass)
1989: After Hours - with Joe Pass (guitar) and Ray Brown (bass)
1992: Kiri Sidetracks - with Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Mundell Lowe (guitar) and Ray Brown (bass)
1993: What Headphones? - with Warren Vaché , Jim Pugh , Richard Todd , Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown, Grady Tate
1995: Andre Previn & Friends Play Show Boat - with Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown, Grady Tate
1995: Jazz at the Musikverein - with Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown
1996: Ballads - Solo Jazz Standards
1999: We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad - An Ellington Songbook - with David Finck
2007: Alone - Ballads for Solo Piano

Recordings of classical music:

1960: CL 1495 - Gershwin: Concerto in F Rhapsody in Blue - Previn Kostelanetz
1961: MS 6239 - Hindemith: Piano Sonata No. 3 Barber Martin - Previn
1962: MS 6346 - Poulenc: 3 Pieces Suite Française Roussel: 3 Pieces Sonatine - Previn
1962: MS 6392 - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos - Previn Bernstein
1963: MS 6463 - Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 Fauré: Piano Trio - Previn Roth Schuster
1964: MS 6583 - Copland: The Red Pony Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem - Previn
1964: MS 6586 - Mozart: 12 Variations · Mendelssohn · Mussorgsky · Lieberson - Previn
1965: LSC-2788 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 - Pennario Previn
1965: LSC-2801 - Khachaturian: Piano Concerto · Bloch: Scherzo fantasque - Hollander · Previn
1966: LSC-2866 - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1966: LSC-2884 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 Lyadov - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1966: LSC-2899 - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1966: LSC-2907 - Franck Debussy: Violin Sonatas - Friedman Previn
1967: LSC-2927 - Walton: Symphony No. 1 - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1967: LSC-2961 - Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 Saul and David - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1967: LSC-2945 - Françaix · Satie · Ibert - Lancie · London Symphony Orchestra · Previn
1967: LSC-2983 - Right as the Rain - Price Previn
1968: LSC-2990 - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 The Rock - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1968: LSC-3000 - Mozart: The Impresario - Grist · Raskin · Lewis · Milnes · Previn
1968: LSC-3042 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1969: LSC-3073 - Lalo: Symphonie espagnole · Ravel: Tzigane - Perlman · Previn
1969: LSC-3066 - Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica (No. 7) - London Symphony Orchestra · Previn
1970: LSC-3114 - Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8 - * London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1970: LSC-3135 - Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite · Don Juan - London Symphony Orchestra · Previn
1970: LSC-3170 - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (No. 1) - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1970: LSC-3178 - Vaughan Williams: Concerto Accademico · Symphony No. 4 - Buswell Previn
1971: LSC-3231 - Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto · Etude · 5 Preludes - Bream · Previn
1971: LSC-3239 - Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 Sonata écossaise - Kalichstein Previn
1972: LSC-3244 - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1972: LSC-3280 - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1972: LSC-3281 - Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) - London Symphony Orchestra · Previn
1970: LSC-3282 - Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (No. 2) - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1970: M 31963 - Previn: Guitar Concerto · Ponce: Concierto del sur - Williams · Previn
1978: AGL1-2703 - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 · Prokofiev: “Classical” Symphony - Previn
1978: ABL1-2855 - Previn: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor - London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1979: M 35149 - Rochberg: Violin Concerto - Stern · Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Previn
1984: IM 39153 - Chopin · Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 - Licad Previn
1985: IM 39541 - Elgar Walton: Cello Concertos - Ma London Symphony Orchestra Previn
1986: RCD1-7199 - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Ax Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1986: RC1-5854 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 - Ax Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1987: RL 85930 - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 - Ax Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1988: 7747-1-RC - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Previn
1988: 7748-1-RC - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1988: 7777-1-RC - Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Swensen Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1989: 7894-2-RC - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1990: RD 60362 - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1992: SK 48235 - A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert - Battle Von Stade Marsalis Previn
1992: 09026613842 - Schumann: Piano Quartets - Previn · Kim · Ohyama · Hoffman
1993: 09026603632 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Previn
1993: 09026607132 - Mozart: Piano Quartets - Previn · Kim · Ohyama · Hoffman
1995: 09026680442 - Mozart: Concerto & Sonata for 2 Pianos - De Larrocha Previn Orchestra of St. Luke's
1995: 09026680622 - Ravel Debussy: Piano Trios - Previn Rosenfeld Hoffman
1995: 09026681812 - Poulenc: Sextet · Milhaud: La Création du monde · Saint-Saëns - Previn
1997: SK 62004 - Previn: Cello Sonata · 4 Songs · 2 Remembrances · Vocalise - McNair · Ma · Previn
1998: 09026632922 - Walton: Viola Concerto Maxwell Davies: Violin Concerto - Bashmet Stern Previn

Web links

Commons : André Previn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about André Previn in the catalog of the German National Library
André Previn at the Internet Movie Database (English)
André Previn in the nndb (English)
André Previn at Discogs (English)
G. Schirmer , New York (publisher of Previn's art music), now Wise Music Classical
official homepage

Individual evidence

^ André Previn dies at the age of 89. In: BBC News . February 28, 2019 (English).
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 51-53.
^ ^A ^b Frédéric Döhl: André George Previn. In: Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (Hrsg.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. Hamburg 2012.
^ ^A ^b Frédéric Döhl, André Previn. In: German Historical Institute Washington DC: Transatlantic Perspectives. Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980. Washington 2012.
^ Mario-Felix Vogt: Alone at home with Previn. ( Memento of March 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) In: Fono Forum 5 (2009), pp. 21-23. Accessed March 18, 2020.
↑ Frédéric Döhl: André George Previn , in: Claudia Maurer Zenck and Peter Petersen (eds.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. Hamburg 2012.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 231-234.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 121, 227.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 154-156, 159-161, 227-230.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 199-200, 229-230.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 226-229.
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10078-6 , pp. 279-294.
↑ Almost to Overture (2017)
^ Previns Verlag G. Schirmer has announced the violin sonata as "No. 2" - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (2011) ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - but there is evidence of a third violin sonata that was performed around 1960 (Previn probably withdrew this later, like other early works), cf. Frédéric Döhl, André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 285, 292.
↑ Morning Rain and Warm Evening (2013)
^ Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10078-6 , pp. 295-319.

personal data
SURNAME	Previn, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Previn, André George (full name); Priwin, Andreas Ludwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American pianist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 2019
Place of death	New York City

[1] André Previn dies at the age of 89. In: BBC News . February 28, 2019 (English).

[2] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 51-53.

[doehl_2641-3] A ^b Frédéric Döhl: André George Previn. In: Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter Petersen (Hrsg.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. Hamburg 2012.

[doehl_131-4] A ^b Frédéric Döhl, André Previn. In: German Historical Institute Washington DC: Transatlantic Perspectives. Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980. Washington 2012.

[5] Mario-Felix Vogt: Alone at home with Previn. ( Memento of March 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) In: Fono Forum 5 (2009), pp. 21-23. Accessed March 18, 2020.

[6] Frédéric Döhl: André George Previn , in: Claudia Maurer Zenck and Peter Petersen (eds.): Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. Hamburg 2012.

[7] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 231-234.

[8] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 121, 227.

[9] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 154-156, 159-161, 227-230.

[10] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 199-200, 229-230.

[11] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience. Stuttgart 2012, pp. 226-229.

[12] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10078-6 , pp. 279-294.

[13] Almost to Overture (2017)

[14] Previns Verlag G. Schirmer has announced the violin sonata as "No. 2" - Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (2011) ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - but there is evidence of a third violin sonata that was performed around 1960 (Previn probably withdrew this later, like other early works), cf. Frédéric Döhl, André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 285, 292.

[15] Morning Rain and Warm Evening (2013)

[16] Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musical versatility and aesthetic experience , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10078-6 , pp. 295-319.