George (Jacob) Gershwin (Gershovitz)
Born: 26 September 1898, New York (USA)
Died: 11 July 1937, Hollywood (USA)
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[details ←] George Gershwin: Three Preludes , piano,
[details ←] George Gershwin: George Gershwin At the Piano , piano,
[details ←] George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm , SSAB choir and piano accompaniment, choral, choral
[details ←] George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin: I Got Rhythm , SATB choir and piano accompaniment, choral, choral
[details ←] George Gershwin: Love Is Here to Stay , SATB choir (A Cappella), choral, choral
[details ←] George Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me , SAB choir and piano accompaniment, choral, choral
[details ←] George Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me , SATB choir and piano accompaniment, choral, choral
[details ←] Japanese orchestra,
[details ←] Summertime orchestra,
[details ←] Summertime jazz band,
[details ←] Fascinating Rhythm jazz band,
[details ←] George Gershwin: Japanese , concert band (3 - 1st flute, 3 - 2nd flute, 2 - oboe, 2 - bassoon, 3 - 1st clarinet, 3 - 2nd clarinet, 3 - 3rd clarinet, 1 - alto clarinet, 2 - bass clarinet, 2 - 1st alto saxophone, 2 - 2nd alto saxophone, 1 - tenor saxophone, 1 - baritone saxophone, 3
[details ←] In Memory of All That
[details ←] George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin: George & Ira Gershwin , voice, piano and guitar (chords only),
[details ←] Short Story Vn & Pf Violin,
[details ←] George Gershwin, Will Donaldson: Rialto Ripples - One Piano, Four Hands , piano four-hands,
[details ←] Just Gershwin Real Book Artist Edition Fakebook Piano, Vocal,
Music
Major concert works
- Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Orchestra
- Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra
- Cuban Overture (Rhumba) for Orchestra
- Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
- An American in Paris
Other concert works
- Three Preludes for Piano
- Lullaby for String Quartet
- Promenade for Orchestra and solo Clarinet
Gershwin wrote literally dozens of musicals for Broadway including Lady be Good, Oh Kay!, the pulitzer prize winning Of Thee I Sing, Girl Crazy, and many, many others. Gershwin wrote countless pop pieces of the time including Swanee, I Got Rhythm, etc.
(Contributed by Chance Cadman <gershy7
hotmail.com>)
His works include: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, ‘An American in Paris’, the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’, and numerous songs like ‘Embraceable You’, ‘Our Love is Here to Stay’, ‘Strike Up the Band’, ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, and ‘I Got Rhythm’.
(Contributed by <ZZA95WNSsheffield.ac.uk>)
Biography
Gershwin’s parents moved to New York from Russia before George’s birth. The family name changed gradually from Gershovitz, to Gershwine, to the now familiar Gershwin. He took only a few lessons as a young man in piano and composition. He once tried to convince the famed Arnold Schoenberg to give him lessons in composition. Arnold replied, "I would only make you a bad Shoenberg, and you are such a good Gershwin already!" His success truly began with the compositiion of Swanee. He was comisioned later to write a concerto for Paul Whiteman’s jazz orchestra in 1923. He did not compose a full-scale concerto, but the result was Rhapsody in Blue which took the world by storm! To prove there was more where that came from, he wrote his brilliantly orchestrated Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra in 1925. He continued expanding his concert repetoire with such inspirational works as An American in Paris and Cuban Overture (both inspired by trips he took) while gaining immense popularity with his works in both Broadway musicals and Hollywood film scores. George died in 1937 of a brain tumor. It was said that in his last days alive he would peck at his piano and try to regain the virtuosic glory that had defined not only a generation of music but what American music would be for coming generations.
(Contributed by Chance Cadman <gershy7hotmail.com>)
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