# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-gershwin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:55.269Z

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name: "George Gershwin"
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description: "He wrote the clarinet glissando that opens Rhapsody in Blue, the lullaby \"Summertime\", and the first musical to win a Pulitzer for drama — all before turning forty. Gershwin bent American sound until jazz, Broadway, and the concert hall couldn't be pulled apart."
tagline: "American composer and pianist (1898–1937)"
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birthDate: "1898-09-26"
deathDate: "1937-07-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Jacob Gershwine in 1898, he studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody, starting out as a song plugger before writing Broadway shows with his brother Ira and Buddy DeSylva. When he moved to Paris hoping to study with Nadia Boulanger, she turned him down — afraid formal training would wreck his jazz style; Maurice Ravel said the same. He composed An American in Paris anyway, came home, and in 1935 finished Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward, an opera that flopped commercially but later became an American classic. He moved to Hollywood to score films, then died of a brain tumor in 1937 at thirty-eight.