A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Levi, Hermann

LEVI, Hermann, born Nov. 7, 1839, at Giessen, studied with Vincenz Lachner from 1852 to 1855, and for three years from that time at the Leipzig Conservatorium. His first engagement as a conductor was at Saarbrticken in 1859; in 1861 he became director of the German Opera at Rotterdam, in 1864 Hofkapellmeister at Carlsruhe, and finally in 1872 was appointed to his present post at the Court Theatre of Munich. He attained to a prominent place among Wagnerian conductors, and to him fell the honour of directing the first performance of Parsifal at Bayreuth, on July 28, 1882.

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