Robert Levin

Robert Levin studied at Harvard University, Harvard College and Andrew Jackson High School. Training under Stefan Wolpe, Nadia Boulanger and Clifford Curzon is recorded. Employment is recorded with Harvard University, Curtis Institute of Music and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Distinctions recorded are Bach Medal.

Born in Brooklyn, Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School, and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He attended Harvard, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1968 with a thesis titled The Unfinished Works of W. A. Mozart. Levin took private lessons at Chatham Square Music School, Conservatoire National de Musique and the Fontainebleau School of Music in: • piano, with Jan Gorbaty, Louis Martin, Alice Gaultier-Léon, Jean Casadesus, Clifford Curzon and Robert Casadesus • organ, with Nadia Boulanger • solfège, with Seymour Bernstein, Louis Martin and Annette Dieudonné • counterpoint, with Suzanne Bloch and Nadia Boulanger • composition, with Stefan Wolpe • conducting, with Eleazar de Carvalho

After graduating from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was subsequently appointed associate professor of music and coordinator of theory instruction at SUNY Purchase, and full professor in 1975. From 1986 to 1993, he served as professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. In 1993 he became professor of music at his alma mater, Harvard University, where he remains Professor Emeritus. In 1994 he was made Dwight P. Robinson Jr Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and was a head tutor from 1998 to 2004. In 2012, as Humanitas Visiting Professor of chamber music at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, he gave two lectures, Improvising Mozart and Composing Mozart and a concert with Academy of Ancient Music. Levin's academic career has included teaching and tutoring performance practice (especially involving keyboard instruments and conducting, with an emphasis on the Classical period) in addition to music history and theory. He currently holds the position of Hogwood Fellow with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Levin is married to Ya-Fei Chuang, a pianist who studied with him at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

He was employed by Harvard University, Curtis Institute of Music and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He belonged to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Robert Levin is recorded as musicologist, music historian, composer, pianist and harpsichordist.

• Requiem in D minor K. 626 (also historically completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr) • Mass in C minor ("The Great") K. 427 (also historically completed by Alois Schmitt and reconstructed into a performable version by a number of composers, including H. C. Robbins Landon, Franz Beyer and Richard Maunder) • Larghetto and Allegro in E-flat major for two pianos K. deest (also historically completed by Maximilian Stadler and Paul Badura-Skoda) • Rondo in A major for basset clarinet and string quartet, K. 581a • Allegro in B-flat major for basset clarinet and string quartet, K. 516c • Allegro in B-flat major for keyboard, K. 400 (also historically completed by Maximilian Stadler) • Allegro in G minor for keyboard, K. 312/590d (also historically completed by an unknown composer) • Sonata Movement in C major, K. 42 (35a) • Suite in C major for keyboard, K. 399: Sarabande • Concerto for Violin and Piano K. Anh. 56/315f • Horn Concerto in D major, K. 412 (also historically completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr) • Rondo for horn and orchestra in E-flat major K. 371 • Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon K. 297b (reconstruction of possible original version for flute, oboe, horn, and bassoon)

Robert Levin is recorded as having studied at Harvard University, Harvard College and Andrew Jackson High School.