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André Previn (1929-2019)

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Marc Myers
Mar 01, 2019
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André Previn, a piano prodigy who began his career at MGM while still in high school in the mid-1940s and excelled at jazz, classical and easy listening recordings in the 1950s and beyond, died on February 28. He was 89.


Previn escaped Nazi Germany with his family in 1938 when he was still a child. The family emigrated to Los Angeles, where they had rela…

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