Mischa Levitzki

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Mischa Levitzki (also known as Levitski; May 25, 1898 – January 2, 1941) was a Russian-born U.S.-based concert pianist. Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jewish parents who were naturalised American civilians on a return trip to Ukraine.

He began playing the violin at the age of three, but soon discovered an obsession with the piano, which he studied with Aleksander Michalowski in Warsaw before making his debut in Antwerp in 1906. Walter Damrosch, his father, who received a scholarship for him at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School), in New York, where he studied from 1907 to 1911.

Levitzki entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1913, where he became Ernst von Dohnányi's youngest pupil and received the Mendelssohn Prize in 1915.

By this time, he had appeared in Europe and Scandinavia.

He made his American debut at Aeolian Hall on October 17, 1916, at Aeolian Hall, and then settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen.

Levitzki performed around the world until his death.

He toured in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, earning a reputation for his Romantic repertory.

In 1917, he was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity at the New England Conservatory. He transcribed several works for piano, compiled a cadenza for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, and wrote little piano pieces.

The Enchanted Nymph, Valse in A, Valse tzigane, and a gavotte were among his piano compositions. During the 1920s, he played for the AMPICO Piano Roll Company. Levitzki died of a heart attack in 1941 at his Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey.

Levitski's papers are conserved at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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