George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937) · United States · Musicians · Died at 38
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Something wrong?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.
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Eerste acht maten van The Half of It, Dearie, BluesIn their own words 9
, Modern European composers ... have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America.
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking.
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SpotifyAlbums 24
RMRhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody & Piano Concerto in F Major
GVGeorge Gershwin Song Book: 20 Instrumentals & Vocals
AAAn American in Paris / Grand Canyon Suite / AdagioRBRhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto / Song-BookRCRhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Piano Concerto
APArias and Barcarolles / School for Scandal / An American in ParisRPRhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in F, An American in ParisRSRhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess (Orchestral Suite)Awards
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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.
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