Andre Previn

Conductor

1929-04-06 – 2019-02-28

German-born American conductor, pianist, and composer whose work spanned film, jazz, and classical music. He won multiple Academy Awards and Grammy Awards and led major orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Quotes by Andre Previn

I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.
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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
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I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
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