Previn to compose and conduct the music for “The Sun Comes Up,” starring Lassie and the once-illustrious actress Jeanette MacDonald, who was allergic to dogs. Previn became the principal conductor of the London Symphony in 1968 was “Almost Like Bernstein.” Newsweek summarized his appointment as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1985 as “Bernstein West.” He was often compared to Leonard Bernstein, a similarly versatile conductor, composer and pianist. Previn as a “wunderkind in a turtleneck” and the “Mickey Mouse maestro” when he was in his 20s and 30s. He was also the music director or principal conductor of a half-dozen orchestras.Ĭritics described Mr.

Previn wrote or arranged the music for dozens of movies and received four Academy Awards, and was nominated for three Oscars in one year alone - 1961, for the scores for “Elmer Gantry” and “Bells Are Ringing” and the song “Faraway Part of Town” from the comedy “Pepe.”Īudiences knew him as well as a jazz pianist who appeared with Ella Fitzgerald, among others, and as a composer who turned out musicals, orchestral works, chamber music, operas and concertos, including several for his fifth wife, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. His death was confirmed by his manager, Linda Petrikova. André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music - and between composing, conducting and performing - in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan.

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