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Alexandre Levy was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music and rhythms. His hometown grants a prestigious award in his name. His Jewish family came from France and was musically active. His father, Henrique Luís Levy, was a musician who founded Casa Levy, a leading music store in São Paulo. Darius Milhaud, in his ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit, borrowed a theme from Levy's Tango Brasileiro. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
