# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-levin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:51.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-levin"
name: "Walter Levin"
slug: "walter-levin"
description: "Walter Levin was the founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet, which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second Viennese School, as well as for its intellectually penetrating interpretations of the classical and romantic quartet repertory, in particular the late quartets of Beethoven. Levin was also an important pedagogue, having taught many of the world's leading string quartets, among them the Alban Berg Quartet and the Arditti Quartet; other prominent students include the conductor James Levine, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and the pianist Stefan Litwin."
tagline: "German violinist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-12-06"
deathDate: "2017-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.007272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/754965"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "والتر ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "والتر ليفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin"
    title: "Walter Levin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin"
    title: "Walter Levin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin"
    title: "Walter Levin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Левин, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f95a8d7-070e-40cb-bb92-abec3987a648"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214027"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump