Boris Levenson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Levenson

Russian-American composer

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1884

Place of Birth: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1947

Profession: composer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Boris Levinson (Loewensohn) (1884-1947) was a Russian-born American composer. Levenson was born on 22 March 1884 in Ackerman, Bessarabia (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, then a province of Russian Empire).
Levenson became a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, before becoming a prominent composer of his own right.
A Bessarabian Jew, Levenson focused his work on Jewish folk songs.
He traveled to the United States in 1920. His musical output also includes a string quartet among other works.
This was performed in a concert of his works in London, England in April, 1920.He died in March 1947 in New York City.