George Gershwin
His brother who he produced popular songs and musicals with
Ira
The years by his name
1882-1971
pioneered what
dodecaphony, or the twelve-tone system
He learned experimentation from who
His father george
Had what themes
Spanish
Melded what two music forms with classical forms
Jazz, popular music
Pagan story he created that lead to riots
The Rite of Spring
His early influences
Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss
Where did he study music
yale
Most popular piece
Bolero
Song 1924
Rhapsody in Blue
Name the symphony he created
Symphony of Psalms and Agon.
First started with romanticism then developed into what
expressionist pieces
Composed one of these two pieces
Second Piano (Concord) Sonata and Three Places in New England
Produced this while a student of Gabriel Fauré
Pavane for a Dead Princess
First major hit Swanee was sung by who
Al Jolson
Name one of the two grand ballets he completed for Sergei Diaghilev
The Firebird and Petrushka
Some of his music included (2)
Transfigured night and A Survivor from Warsaw
Which symphony won him Pulitzer Prize in 1947
Third
re-orchestrated what
Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
Died by what at age 38
brain tumor
He studied under this person
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
His unfinished opera still performed today
Moses und Aron
His other job was
Insurance sales
What surgery ended his life
brain