• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • George Rochberg [pupils] (1918–2005) Ned Rorem [pupils] (b. 1923) Nino Rota (1911–1979) Rolf C. Scheurer (1918–2006) Virgil Thomson [pupils] George Theophilus...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    lines and points, culminating twice in twelve-note simultaneities. For George Rochberg, "the principles of 'the structural spatial dimension' ... join[ed]...
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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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    of a "Counterfeit Detector". The novel was turned into an opera by George Rochberg; it was premiered by the Santa Fe Opera in 1982, but was not held to...
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  • general and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012) 1918 – George Rochberg, American composer and educator (d. 2005) 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Russian...
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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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    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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  • his influential collage piece Williams Mix in 1952. More recently, George Rochberg used collage in Contra Mortem et Tempus and Symphony No. 3. In the...
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  • Joseph Robinson (1815–1898) Thomas Robinson (c. 1560 – after 1609) George Rochberg (1918–2005) August Röckel (1814–1876) Arturo Rodas (born 1954) Pierre...
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  • (1915–2005) George Perle (1915–2009) Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987) Gordon Binkerd (1916–2003) Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) George Rochberg (1918–2005)...
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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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  • Lovecraft Scholar Dania Ramirez (born 1979), film and television actress George Rochberg (1918–2005), composer (English major) Lorene Scafaria (born 1978),...
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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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    Ruggiero Ricci (1997) 50 Caprice Variations (on Caprice No. 24) by George Rochberg (1970) Paganini Variations on the 24th caprice by Eugène Ysaÿe (posthumous...
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  • guitarist The Guess Who, 59 May 29 Oscar Brown, jazz singer-songwriter, 78 George Rochberg, composer, 86 June 13 – David Diamond, American composer, 89 June 14...
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    revised in 1961, No. 4 in 1988, No. 5 in 1990 and No. 6 in 1992. George Rochberg (1918–2005) Seven quartets: The sixth quartet includes a set of variations...
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