Boris Levenson

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Boris Levenson was born in Bessarabia, Romania in the year 1884. Levenson became a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, before becoming a prominent composer of his own right. A Bessarabian Jew, Levenson focused his work on Jewish folk songs. He traveled to the USA in 1920. He died in 1947.