Ernst Levy (18 November 1895 – 19 April 1981) was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor.
Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno.
[1] David Dubal describes him as an "unusual and powerful pianist" who made "grandly conceived" recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured "the very essence of the Faustian Liszt".
[1] His work as a musicologist and teacher brought him to the United States, where he taught at colleges including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago and the New England Conservatory; he also became a United States citizen.
[3] In 1966, he retired from academia and returned to his native Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his life.