He was a student of Jules Massenet, of whom he wrote in 1911, in the Annales politiques et littéraires,[2] 17 December 1911:
One of Massenet's great talents was to make people understand, love, deepen, by singing himself and by performing the works of the masters at the piano. He often played Schubert and Schumann to us, comparing their different geniuses even in the smallest nuances
After Massenet's resignation in 1896, Levadé attended the classes of Charles Lenepveu and obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1899 with his cantata Callirhoe to a text by Eugène Adénis.
In 1895 he produced a Japanese pantomime: Coeur de magots, a "sketch" given at the "Grand Guignol" in 1897, and a "salon opera" in 1903. He wrote a three-act opera: The Heretics, a lyrical tragedy on a poem by Ferdinand Hérold.[when?] In 1908, he composed the music for La Courtisane de Corinthe, to a text by Michel Carré and Paul Bilhaud which was staged in 1908 by Sarah Bernhardt, then Les Fiançailles de l'ami Fritz, after Erckmann-Chatrian in 1919.
Other musical adaptations of literary texts include Le Capitaine Fracasse, libretto by Émile Bergerat and Michel Carré, lyrical comedy from Théophile Gautier's eponymous novel and in 1929, La Peau de chagrin, lyrical comedy in four acts after Balzac, libretto by Pierre Decourcelle and Michel Carré, then La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque, lyrical comedy in four acts based on the novel by Anatole France in 1934.
Levadé was also a composer of popular songs (J'ai cueilli le lys, 1912), symphonic music (Prélude religieux for string orchestra), lullaby for piano and violin and religious music: Prélude religieux for organ, Agnus Dei for choir, Psaume CXIII for solo, choir and orchestra.
