
George Gershwin
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À propos de George Gershwin
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second of four children from a close-knit Russian Jewish immigrant family. At the age of 16, the young George quit school and began his musical career as a song-plugger on New York's Tin Pan Alley. He was soon writing his own songs and his first published work When You Want ‘Em, You Can't Get ‘Em, demonstrated innovative new songwriting techniques and earned him all of five dollars. Soon after, however, he met a young lyricist named Irving Ceaser and together they would compose a long list of popular songs including Swanee, which scored Gershwin his first big national hit.
Swanee would be followed in short order by a series of nearly forty-five more songs; among them Somebody Loves Me and Stairway to Paradise, as well as the twenty-five-minute opera, Blue Monday. Composed in five days, Blue Monday, though a work of Gershwin juvenilia, offered hints of great musical development to come.
Gershwin's first collaboration with his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin, produced the Broadway hit Lady Be Good which included such standards as Fascinating Rhythm and The Man I Love. It was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for the rest of the composer's life and would elevate the musical comedy to an American art form. Musicals including Oh, Kay! and Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, were created increasingly alongside more serious symphonic works as Gershwin aimed to make his mark in the concert world.
Gershwin's jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue for piano and orchestra premiered in New York's Aeolian Hall at a concert entitled "An Experiment in Music" when the composer was still in his twenties. It would prove to be his most popular symphonic work. Among those in attendance at the premiere were Jascha Heifitz, Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Stokowski and Serge Rachmaninov. Gershwin followed this success with his Piano Concerto in F and the now legendary tone poem An American in Paris which he wrote during an extended stay in Paris. French music, in particular the composers Debussy and Ravel, would prove to have a lasting influence on Gershwin's classical music. Critics were often at a loss as to where to place Gershwin's classical music in the standard repertoire and some simply dismissed him, but the music always found favor with the general public. He was very soon widely acclaimed in the concert world as piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer.
Back on Broadway, George and Ira Gershwin continued to experiment with novel ideas and their hit show Of Thee I Sing dealt pointedly with social issues of the time, becoming the first musical comedy to win the Pulitzer Prize. This feat was soon followed by the premiere of Gershwin's folk opera and most ambitious work to date Porgy and Bess which had only moderate success. Now recognized as one of the seminal works of American opera, it includes such timeless favorites as It Ain't Necessarily So, I Loves You, Porgy, and Summertime.
Shortly after the premiere of Porgy and Bess, Gershwin moved to Hollywood to score a series of successful films but while there became ill. At the time of his premature death at the age of 38, Gershwin had plans to return to New York and was contemplating work on a new symphony, opera, and ballet. These compositions were not to be. Today he remains one of America's, indeed one of the world's, most beloved composers.
2023 marks the start of the the first scholarly critical edition of his works as part of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition. It is the result of the Gershwin Initiative of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Gershwin Heirs Association and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and published by Schott Music. Mark Clague is the editor-in-chief.
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for two vocal soloists (male and female) and orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: 2 voixes et orchestreLangue: Anglais
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Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: hautbois et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 22854Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: saxophone ténor en si bémol et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21487Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: saxophone alto en mi bémol et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21486Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: clarinette en si bémol et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21484Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: flûte et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21483Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: violoncelle et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21485Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: alto et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21482Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
Compositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Wolfgang BirtelSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: violon et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 21481Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 10,99 €TTC -
arrangés pour orgue d'après les Pièces pour pianoCompositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Ralf SachSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: orgueNuméro du produit: ED 20587Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 12,99 €TTC -
Boy WantedCompositeur: George GershwinMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: voix et orchestreLangue: Anglais
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for orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Sid RaminMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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SwingCompositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: W. Scott RagsdaleMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Big Band with Solo Vocal
Instrumentation: big band et chantLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: FMA 40366En stock63,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
Compositeur: George GershwinMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition et partiesInstrumentation: quintette de cuivresLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: HLS 50488462Épuisé33,99 €TTC, hors expédition
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for chorus and orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Jack M. JarrettMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: choeur et orchestreLangue: Anglais
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for orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinEditeur: John MauceriMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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A tone poem for orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinEditeur: Mark ClagueMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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for orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinArrangeur: Frank Campbell-WatsonMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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Compositeur: George GershwinEditeur: Frank Campbell-WatsonMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeInstrumentation: orchestreNuméro du produit: ETP 1398En stock17,50 €TTC, hors expédition
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A tone poem for orchestraCompositeur: George GershwinEditeur: Mark ClagueMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre