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American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)

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Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School.

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1982Pulitzer Prize for Music
1974Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards
1926Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music

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Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions's friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced him, but he modified his technique to a unique style involving rows to supply melodic themes, while composing subsidiary parts freely.

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United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1985 · aged 88
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22 languages

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