Sylvester Levay (originally Lévay Szilveszter, Serbian: Силвестер Леваи, Silvester Levai) is a Hungarian composer. He was born 16 May 1945 in Subotica in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), his name in English is pronounced similarly to "Lave-ah-ee (like slave)."
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“Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,
Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.”
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