George Gershwin -- His Life & Music
by Ean Wood
George Gershwin -- His Life & Music by Ean Wood |
Period: Early 20th
Century
Born: Monday, September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York
(USA)
Died: Sunday, July 11, 1937 in Beverly Hills, California
(USA)
Nation of Origin: United States
Major Works:
An American in Paris (1925)
Rhapsody in Blue (1924 - orchestrated by Ferde Grofe)
The opera Porgy and Bess
Other Information:
Gershwin (originally Gershovitz), became famous by combining jazz
idioms with classical forms and ensembles. His music education was
slight but his melodic gifts were extraordinary. His very appealing
music embodies New York of the 1920s.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900,
Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
Links to essays at other sites:
 Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman |
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Biographical essay from the Grove Concise Dictionary of
Music
Biographical essay at the Karadar site
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directly.
Biographical essay at the Naxos site
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