Oscar Levant was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor and actor born in Pittsburgh, U.S., from Russian-emigrant parents. Levant studied under Zygmunt Stojowski and Arnold Schoenberg, and has 33 albums as a pianist, having recorded works of numerous classical composers. For a period of time during the 1940s, he was the highest paid concert pianist in the United States.
- Occupation
- actor, composer, pianist, jazz musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 27, 1906, December 26, 1906
- Died
- August 14, 1972
