Lazare Lévy

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Lazare Lévy (January 18, 1882 – September 20, 1964) was a French pianist and teacher.

Lazare Lévy studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Diémer, and took a premier prix in 1898. He performed widely in Europe and in Asia and recorded works by Mozart and Schumann. He had a long and distinguished career as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1914, appointed to the former post of Alfred Cortot in 1923. During the Second World War Lazare Lévy was removed from his professorship, to be reinstated in 1944. Among his pupils were Lukas Foss, Monique Haas, Clara Haskil and Yvonne Loriod. With Diémer and Victor Staub he authored a Méthode supérieure de piano (1907).

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