Robert Levin

Robert Levin is an American pianist, composer and musicologist, born in New York in 1947. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and at Harvard, where he taught from 1993. He is known for his completions of unfinished works by Mozart, among them the Requiem and the Great Mass in C minor, and for improvising cadenzas in period style when he plays Mozart and Beethoven concertos. Levin studied piano with Clifford Curzon and Robert Casadesus. He headed the theory department at the Curtis Institute and taught piano in Freiburg (1986-1993).