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George Gershwin, orig. Jacob Gershvin, (born Sept. 26, 1898, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died July 11, 1937, Hollywood, Calif.), U.S. composer. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he heard jazz performed live from about age six. In his teens he worked as a song plugger (playing piano in Tin Pan Alley to demonstrate sheet music for potential customers ...
George Gershwin fue un reconocido compositor estadounidense que logró incursionar en el ámbito musical por medio de sus obras que sintetizaban de forma muy hábil los elementos procedentes del jazz y de la tradición clásica, los cuales al mismo tiempo le permitieron destacar en la música sinfónica y popular.
Biografía de George Gershwin. Nacido en Brooklyn, Nueva York el 26 de septiembre de 1898 y fallecido en Beverly Hills, California, el 11 de julio de 1937 se llamaba en realidad, Jacob Gershovitz. Era hijo de inmigrantes rusos judíos que habían llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo el “sueño americano”. Su aprendizaje autodidacta del ...
George Gershwin had serious ambitions in the realm of classical music, studying with such classical composers as Henry Cowell and Wallingford Riegger. His first public step in this direction came when Paul Whiteman commissioned a piece from him for a special concert at New York's Aeolian Hall and the result was "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924).
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It. George Gershwin. The Very Best Of. 02:51. 15. Gershwin: Our Love is Here to Stay (Arr. Firth for Voice & 2 Pianos) (From "Goldwyn Follies") Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Gershwin Rhapsody.
14 de may. de 2018 · Born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1898, Jacob Gershvin was the second son of Russian immigrants whose family name morphed from Gershovitz to Gershvin, and finally became anglicized as Gershwin. Young Jacob was, according to William G. Hyland in his George Gershwin: A New Biography, "frankly, a bad child who might have become a gangster."
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, the songs "Swanee" and "Fascinating Rhythm", the jazz standards "Embraceable You" and "I Got Rhythm", and the opera Porgy and Bess, which included the hit "Summertime".
