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Stewart Levin

American musician and composer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ7615855 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stewart Levin is an American musician and composer who has composed music for television shows, including The Wonder Years, Picket Fences, The Practice and thirtysomething. He won an ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for his work on The Wonder Years and Emmy Award nominations for his work on Picket Fences and thirtysomething.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Stewart Levin” as american musician and composer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stewart, Levin and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stewart, Levin and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Stewart Levin”, the useful work is to connect “american musician and composer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7615855. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stewart Levin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.