Andre Previn

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André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. His career was three-pronged.

Previn, who began arranging and composing Hollywood film scores for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was involved in over 50 films throughout his entire career.

He has received four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his albums (one more for his Lifetime Achievement).

In addition to being the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Oslo Philharmonic, he was also the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Oslo Philharmonic.

Previn, a pianist-interpreter and arranger of songs from the Great American Songbook, was a pianist-accompanist to jazz musicians, and he was a trio pianist.

Early life

Previn was born in Berlin to a Jewish family, the second son and last of three children of Charlotte's (née Epstein) and Jack Previn (Jakob Priwin), a lawyer, judge, and music instructor born in Graudenz, later in Germany, but now in Poland. Steve Previn, the oldest son, became a producer. Previn's birth year is uncertain. Previn himself said that 1929 was his birth year, as the majority of published reports point to 1929. Both three children received piano lessons, and Previn was the one who loved them from the start and had the most talent. He began attending the Berlin Conservatory at six years old. Despite André being granted a full scholarship in recognition of his contributions, Previn's father was told in 1938 that he was no longer accepted at the conservatory, despite Previn's being Jewish.

The family had applied for American visas in 1938, but the family had to leave Berlin for Paris after a nine-month wait. Previn's father enrolled his son in the Conservatoire de Paris, where André learned music theory. The family departed Paris on October 20, 1938, and sailed to New York City. The couple's journey continued to Los Angeles, arriving on November 26. Charles Previn, his father's second cousin, was a music director for Universal Studios. In 1943, Previn became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He learned English, his third language after German and French, through comic books and other reading materials with a dictionary, and watching movies. Previn played the piano at the wedding in 1946 and appeared with Richard M. Sherman at the funeral; Sherman was performing with Sherman M. Sherman; Previn played the flute.

Personal life

Previn was married five times. Betty Bennett's first marriage, in 1952, was to jazz singer Betty Bennett, with whom he had two children, Claudia Previn Stasny and Alicia Previn. Previn divorced Bennett in 1957, just a few months before she gave birth to Alicia.

Dory Langan married him in 1959. Dory, a singer-songwriter, became well-known as a lyricist with whom Previn collaborated on several Academy Award-nominated film scores during their marriage. Dory and Mia Farrow, a family friend, separated in 1968 after Dory found out they were pregnant. Dory, who was distraught by his infidelity, was hospitalized for a mental breakdown. Later, she returned to Where (1970), a critically acclaimed album whose confessional lyrics were characterized as "searingly honest," and she chronicled both her mental health and infidelity with her allegations that she caused her marriage to Previn and exacerbated her persistent psychological disorders. Beware Of Young Girls: Kate Dimbleby and pianist Naadia Sheriff revisited Dory Previn's musical interpretations of her union to Previn in the London cabaret exhibition, Beware Of Young Girls: The Dory Previn Story.

Mia Farrow, whom he began dating in 1968, was Previn's third marriage, which occurred in 1970. Previn and Farrow had three biological children together — fraternal twins Matthew and Sascha, born before they were married, and Fletcher, born in 1974. They then adopted Vietnamese infants Lark Song and Summer "Daisy" Song (born October 6, 1974), then followed by Soon-Yi Previn, a Korean child whose bone scan was performed by a physician's bone scan that was discovered between six and eight years old and whose unknown birth date her adoptive parents estimated as October 8, 1970. In 1979, Previn and Farrow separated. Lark died on Christmas Day 2008, aged 35; reports at the time indicated she had died of AIDS-related pneumonia. "She does not exist" in the aftermath of the controversy involving Soon-Yi and Mia Farrow's partner Woody Allen, Previn said of Soon-Yi.

Previn's most faithful marriage was his fourth. Heather Sneddon married in January 1982. Lukas' son and Li-An's daughter Li-An were both present. Previn wrote a short memoir of his time in Hollywood, No Minor Chords, which was published in 1991, edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and dedicated to Heather. In July 2002, this union came to an end.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, a German violinist who had composed his Violin Concerto in the previous year, was his fifth marriage anniversary. They announced their divorce in August 2006, but continued to perform together in concerts afterwards.

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