• George Rochberg (July 5, 1918 – May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the...
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    Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg, and Witold Lutosławski, all of whom wrote variations on these works...
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  • George Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3 is an important piece in American contemporary music literature. Written in 1971 and premiered on May 15, 1972...
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  • Austria, and the United States, with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and George Rochberg. Currently active US-based composers widely described as neoromantic...
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  • in D minor (Op. 112) by Ferdinand Ries, 1813 Symphony No. 5 (Rochberg) by George Rochberg, 1896 Symphony No. 5 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse, 2015 Symphony...
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    Clément Marot (in Latin) Alfred Newman in the film David and Bathsheba George Rochberg Miklós Rózsa Edmund Rubbra: Three Psalms, Op. 61 (No. 2) John Rutter:...
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  • teacher's teachers Rochberg (1918–2005) studied with teachers including Leopold Mannes, Gian Carlo Menotti, Rosario Scalero, George Szell, and Hans Weisse...
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    Tuggle 1969 Phaedra (monodrama for mezzo-soprano and orchestra) by George Rochberg, 1973–1974 Phaedra, album by Tangerine Dream, 1974 Phaedra, song cycle...
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    music is that of George Rochberg, who used the technique in his String Quartet No. 3 of 1972 and Music for the Magic Theater. Rochberg turned to pastiche...
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    of Music in Manhattan; his composition students at Mannes included George Rochberg and Ursula Mamlok. In 1946, Szell became a naturalized U. S. citizen...
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    composers Olga Gorelli, Lee Hoiby, Stanley Hollingsworth, Leonard Kastle, George Rochberg, and Luigi Zaninelli. The 1950s marked the pinnacle of Menotti's critical...
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    a "spy swap". Lived in Newtown from 2008 until his death in 2019. George Rochberg (resident): Contemporary classical composer, University of Pennsylvania...
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    television, and, by the late 1930s, fully embracing jazz. By the end, George Rochberg was an editor of The Etude under Guy McCoy, who had succeeded Cooke...
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    Poems of William Blake 1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet No. 4, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon George Rochberg, Symphony No. 5 1987: John Harbison...
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  • Paganini, Op. 43 (1934), a set of 24 variations for piano and orchestra George Rochberg – 50 Caprice Variations for solo violin (1970) Alexander Rosenblatt...
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  • Nigel Clarke, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Hans Werner Henze, George Rochberg, William Bolcom, Dmitri Smirnov, Jörg Widmann and John Wall. He leads...
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  • including the Viola Concerto by Walter Piston and the Viola Sonata by George Rochberg, and recorded for the RCA, Sony, Boston, Albany Records, and Decca...
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  • (Arabescata) by Einojuhani Rautavaara, 1962 Symphony No. 4 (Rochberg), by George Rochberg, 1976 Symphony No. 4 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse, 2013 Symphony...
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  • (Riegger) (Op. 42) by Wallingford Riegger, 1946–47 Symphony No. 3 (Rochberg) by George Rochberg, 1966–69 Symphony No. 3 (Rorem) by Ned Rorem, 1959 Symphony No...
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  • harpsichord), is a composition for harpsichord or piano by American composer George Rochberg, written in 1966 and dedicated to his friend Igor Kipnis, who premièred...
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    Musik with this magic square. In Webern's late cantatas and songs, George Rochberg observed, "the principles of 'the structural spatial dimension' .....
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    register, but not time (meter, rhythm, or tempo) in Webern's Symphony. George Rochberg noted the "objectified, mensural" relation of pitch and time in Webern's...
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  • African surgeon. Svatopluk Pluskal, 74, Czechoslovak footballer, stroke. George Rochberg, 86, American composer. Luciano Rossi, 70, Italian film actor. Kazimierz...
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  • Piston Henri Pousseur Einojuhani Rautavaara Roger Reynolds Terry Riley George Rochberg Leonard Rosenman Cláudio Santoro Peter Schat Leon Schidlowsky Dieter...
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  • 9, Antar) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1868 Symphony No. 2 (Rochberg) by George Rochberg, 1955–56 Symphony No. 2 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse, 1994 Symphony...
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    Parsippany, N.J." Staff. "George Rochberg, Composer, Dies at 86", The New York Times, June 1, 2005. Accessed March 13, 2012. "Mr. Rochberg was born in Paterson...
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  • (Vincentiana) by Einojuhani Rautavaara, 1986–87 Symphony No. 6 (Rochberg) by George Rochberg, 1986–87 Symphony No. 6 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse, 2019 Symphony...
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  • The Symphony No. 5 is the fifth symphony by the American composer George Rochberg. It was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which first...
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    contemporary classical music. At university, he studied with George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and George Rochberg. After college, Levinson went to study composition...
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  • Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, Nicholas Maw, Xavier Montsalvatge, George Rochberg, and Kurt Schwertsik. The volume and impact of his transcriptions,...
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