Back To Black: the 27 Club topic

This is the criminally unsung Al "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat singing and playing awesome guitar on "My Mistake", a track from their 1968 double album Living the Blues:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wilson_(musician)

Half the topic title derives from the name of the stunning second album by Amy Winehouse. From it, this is the heartbreaking "Tears Dry On Their Own":



"He walks away
The sun goes down
He takes the day, but I'm grown
And in your way, in this blue shade
My tears dry on their own"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Black

The one "classical" member of this predominantly musical club is Alexandre Levy. The following description has been translated online (here reproduced verbatim) from the original Portuguese (here):

Alexandre Levy (composer, pianist, conductor and music critic) was born in São Paulo (SP) on November 10, 1864 and died prematurely in the same city on January 17, 1892. He was the son of the French clarinetist Louis Levy, based in São Paulo since 1860 and founder of Casa Levy, one of the main music businesses of the time. Luís Henrique Levy, his brother three years older, and his father were his initiators in music. His piano teacher seems to have been the French pianist based in São Paulo Gabriel Giraudon, before studying with the Russian pianist Luis Maurice. His debut as a pianist was at the age of eight. His talent was widely recognized, having even been compared to Mozart by music critics of his time.

Given the importance of Casa Levy and the popularity of his father, he had direct contact with all important São Paulo musicians, and with all those who were going to perform in that city. In 1882, Alexandre and Luís Levy played in Buenos Aires. Since 1880, several of his works for piano began to be published in Europe. In 1883, he became director of concerts at Clube Haydn, an important São Paulo concert society. In 1885, he served as conductor for the first time, in concert at this same Haydn Club. In 1887, he traveled to Europe, having studied in Paris with Émile Durand and Vincenzo Ferroni. At the end of the same year, he returned to São Paulo, where he started working as a music critic in the press. His compositions from this time already follow a clear nationalist tendency, due to the use of folklore and urban and rural population themes. He was chosen as Patron of Chair n. 29 of the Brazilian Academy of Music.

Main works
Orchestral music: Symphony in E minor; Comala (1890); Symphonic poem; Brazilian suite (1890).
Chamber music: Trio in B flat; String quartet (1885); Rêverie (1889).
Instrumental music: Schumanniana (1891); Brazilian tango (1890); Variations on a popular Brazilian theme (1887).

[jk:] In 1888, Levy wrote a symphonic poem inspired by Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The sombre tone of the piece foreshadows his own untimely end. The cause of Levy's death is lost in the mists of time.