Oscar Levant

Person · Open Library

Born

1906

Died

1972

Works

5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1906-12-27

Active to

1972-08-14

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,474

Total plays

18,425

Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, as for his music. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1906 to an Orthodox Jewish family from Russia, Levant moved to New York in 1922, following the death of his father, Max. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski, a well-established piano pedagogue. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease†

   · 2005 · cited 9,481x

2. Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

   · 2015 · cited 7,897x

3. 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

   · 2021 · cited 5,872x

4. nuScenes: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving

   · 2020 · cited 5,736x

5. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,582x

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Quotes

• “It certainly will be if you are still around.”
• “Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
• “It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”
• “A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same — the orchestra will hate him.”
• “I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like stout Cortez [sic] on a peak in Darien (I know it was Balboa) he saw before him a limitless expanse, a whole uncharted sea that might be subjected to his influence, free from the encumbrance of a baton.”
• “Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Oscar

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Pittsburgh

Place of death

Beverly Hills

Spouse

Barbara Woodell

Occupation

radio personality

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Religion

Orthodox Judaism

Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Student of

Zygmunt Stojowski

Field of work

acting

Genre

jazz

Instrument

piano

Image

Oscar Levant in Rhapsody in Blue trailer.jpg

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