• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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