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	George Rochberg – FREE George Rochberg Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find George Rochberg Research
		George Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on July 5, 1918.
		Rochberg taught harmony, counterpoint, and form and analysis at Curtis from 1948 to 1954 and served first as editor and then as director of publications for the Theodore Presser Company from 1951 to 1960.
		What Rochberg referred to as "spatial music" replaced the concept of "becoming," achieved through development and final arrival at some musical objective in metered time, with that of "being," achieved through the initial statement of a completed idea in superimposed and changing meters and tempos.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G2-3404705518.html (1744 words)

	George Rochberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Rochberg, (July 5, 1918, Paterson, New Jersey – May 29, 2005, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American composer.
		Rochberg attended the Mannes College of Music, where one of his teachers was George Szell.
		After a period of experimentation with serialism, Rochberg abandoned it after 1963 when his son died, saying that serialism was empty of expressive emotion and was inadequate to express his grief and rage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Rochberg (757 words)

	George Rochberg; composer opposed 12-tone modernism - The Boston Globe
		American composer George Rochberg, one of the central figures in the 1970s revolt against the modernist 12-tone technique of composition, died Sunday of complications after surgery May 2.
		Rochberg died at a hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pa., according to his widow, Gene.
		Rochberg was born in Paterson, N.J., the son of immigrants from Ukraine.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/06/02/george_rochberg_composer_opposed_12_tone_modernism (519 words)

	George Rochberg (Composer) - Short Biography
		George Rochberg abandoned serialism after 1963 when his son died, saying that serialism was empty of expressive emotion and was inadequate to express his grief and rage.
		George Rochberg is perhaps best known for his "String Quartet No. 6" (recorded by the Concord String Quartet), which includes a movement of variations on the Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D. A few of his works were musical collages of quotations from other composers.
		George Rochberg was the chairman of the music department at the University of Pennsylvania until 1968, and continued to teach there until 1983.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Lib/Rochberg-George.htm (229 words)

	The Legacy of George Rochberg (1918-2005)
		According to Rochberg's own statements, he was unable to find a way to deal with his grief with his own music, and so he slowly began the process of redefining his language, culminating in a series of string quartets written for the Dartmouth based Concord Quartet.
		Rochberg's ability to forge a strong new direction in music ultimately derived from two sources; the high quality of his music, and the strength of his personality.
		George had an effect on those around him because he was a true musical force - not only as a composer, but through his lectures, essays and articles he was one of the finest musical thinkers of the past century.
	www.newmusicon.org /micellany/rochberg_legacy.htm (1329 words)

	George Rochberg; composer's works infused with centuries of influences - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Obituaries - ...
		Rochberg would be a throwback to Brahms, they were certainly surprised by the expressionistic manner of his mature works in the 1980s.
		Rochberg's music is shamelessly heterogeneous, a characteristic represented by his ''Music for the Magic Theater," ''in which the present and the past are all mixed up," according to inscriptions in the score.
		Rochberg often rejected any associations between his music and postmodernism; he was just using whatever means were necessary to communicate.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/05/31/george_rochberg_composers_works_infused_with_centuries_of_influences?pg=full (804 words)

	Guardian \| George Rochberg
		George Rochberg, who has died aged 86, was the first major American composer to turn his back on serial techniques in the mid-1960s and to seek new expression by returning to the traditional romantic and post-romantic values that had, by then, been all but abandoned in the United States.
		In 1960, Rochberg became chairman of the music department at the University of Pennsylvania, but in 1964 his 21-year-old son, Paul, died from a brain tumour, and the composer was brought down in full flight.
		At the end of Rochberg's life, his music enjoyed a revival, with the issue of several new recordings, including the Fifth Symphony and the Clarinet Concerto (1995), as well as the restored Violin Concerto; a new CD of the Second Symphony is due to appear later this year.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5206241-111261,00.html (762 words)

	Romanticist Composer George Rochberg Dies
		Classical composer George Rochberg, 86, who was propelled by private tragedy to defy the prevailing style of composition of his time and, in so doing, helped usher in a new era of musical romanticism, died May 29 at a hospital in Philadelphia of complications following surgery earlier in the month.
		Rochberg's new works, which reached their highest point with a series of string quartets in the 1970s, his 1975 Violin Concerto and his Fifth and Sixth symphonies in the 1980s, initially brought him scorn from established academic composers and critics who saw his music as a betrayal of the principles of modernism.
		Rochberg's music, which was ultimately considered more interesting than that of an ossified avant-garde, proved popular with performers and concertgoers, who found a refreshing return to the fundamentals of melody and form that had been the bulwark of Western music since the Renaissance.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101857_pf.html (782 words)

	George Rochberg Summary
		George Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on July 5, 1918.
		Rochberg taught harmony, counterpoint, and form and analysis at Curtis from 1948 to 1954 and served first as editor and then as director of publications for the Theodore Presser Company from 1951 to 1960.
		Rochberg is perhaps best known for his "String Quartet No. 6", which includes a movement of variations on the Pachelbel Canon in D.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Rochberg (1310 words)

	classical music - andante - george rochberg, u.s. composer who rebelled against modernism, has died at age 86
		Rochberg was one of the most successful composers of the 1970s and '80s.
		Rochberg began to compose in the footsteps of modernists (who preferred highly systemized modes of composition), but the death of his son — the poet Paul Rochberg — from a brain tumor in 1964 left the composer at a loss to express his grief in the kind of music he had written up until then.
		Rochberg's music was growing out of the great works of the past didn't mean that he was glossing over the turbulent times in which he lived.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25575 (975 words)

	George Rochberg: Annotated Bibliography
		Rochberg does, however, construct all twelve pieces using only four forms of a twelve-tone row, although not always putting them in their strictest forms.
		Rochberg relates its value and significance to the presence of symmetry in nature, and discusses the importance this discovery has made in his own compositional thinking.
		Rochberg's main point is that by late Schoenberg twelve-tone composition had come full circle in its possibilities, going from its restricted beginnings, to the discovery of the hexachord and the significance of symmetrical order, to a freedom within the hexachords resulting in vertical order.
	theory.music.indiana.edu /isaacso/t556/bibliographies/rochberg.html (1118 words)

	George Rochberg
		Rochberg’s musical language was derived from that of the Second Viennese School, Schoenberg’s dodecophany (compositions using the twelve tones of the chromatic scale) and the serialism of Anton Webern.
		Schoenberg’s language became in Rochberg’s words "musical esperanto and artificial language incapable of expressing serenity, tranquility, grace, wit and energy." He also became interested in the works of Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, both of whom used many layers and styles in their musical language.
		Rochberg’s music, which caused a stir in the academic avant-garde of the 1960’s, was dubbed Neo-Romanticism.
	www.fuguemasters.com /rochberg.html (395 words)

	George Rochberg's Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of Ukrainian Jews who came to the United States in 1912 and 1913, Rochberg is part of that remarkable generation of Eastern European emigrants and their children—including Aaron Copland, Marc Blitzstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Irving Berlin—who propelled American music into the forefront of international artistic sophistication and significance.
		Upon returning to America, Rochberg published the first study of twelve-tone music, received awards from the Guggenheim and Koussevitsky Foundations, and was appointed to the faculties of Curtis and Penn. His works were performed by the country’s major orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and he supported his compositions by highly regarded and influential essays.
		It was this descent into artistic nihilism that Rochberg rejected, and it was this kind of music that he found incapable of expressing either the depth of his despair or the hope of his vision.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9806/opinion/linton.html (2362 words)

	George Rochberg - Obituaries, News - The Independent
		Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1918, George Rochberg took a BA at Monclair State Teachers' College, also in New Jersey, before attending the Mannes School of Music in New York from 1939 until 1942, studying composition and counterpoint; his teachers there included that legendary martinet of a conductor, Georg Szell, himself no mean composer.
		Rochberg was devastated – and he found that the musical language he had been using did not allow him to express the sheer human emotion of the things he wanted to say.
		Rochberg's own new musical language was one where you might notice footholds in earlier composers but it soon coalesced into a style with an intensity all of its own, a syncretic idiom which embraced the "maximum variety of gesture and texture and the broadest possible spectrum.
	www.independent.co.uk /news/obituaries/george-rochberg-497110.html (1876 words)

	Review/Music; A Concert in Celebration Of Rochberg's Electicism - New York Times
		Rochberg is known, to the extent he is known at all, as the apostate serialist, the composer who decided he loved old music with its melodies and intelligible harmonies and would jolly well write that way whether it was in line with progress and current thinking or not.
		Rochberg is far from the first composer to reject some aspects of the musical present or to compose in intentionally archaizing forms.
		Rochberg's esthetic stance over the content of his music (in public perceptions) is a function of the music itself.
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	Antheil, George
		George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was known for the unusual sounds and instrumentation which he featured in his musical works as well as in film, television, and operatic scores.
		Antheil's philosophic rationale for composing Ballet Mecanique (as described by Ewen) was echoed decades later by fellow American composer, George Rochberg (who also turned to a neo-Romantic style in his later years) in a speech delivered in 1971.
		Regarding the advance and predominance of scientific discovery, Rochberg opined, "…for in science today we see the remarkable phenomenon of an unquestioned, worldwide agreement to pursue knowledge to its absolute limits, regardless of its ultimate consequences for human existence.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/George_Antheil (1613 words)

	Science Fair Projects - George Rochberg
		George Rochberg (born 1918 in Paterson, N.J.) is an American composer.
		He abandoned serialism after 1963 and by the seventies was causing controversy with often obviously tonal music.
		He is perhaps best known for his String Quartet No. 6 (recorded by the Concord String Quartet), which includes a movement of variations on the Pachelbel Canon in D.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/George_Rochberg (274 words)

	George Rochberg, Composer, Dies at 86 - New York Times
		George Rochberg, an American composer who broke ranks with the rigorous modernism of the mid-century avant-garde to write music of rare urgency and candor, died on Sunday at a hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 86 and made his home in Newtown Square, Pa.
		Rochberg had begun to re-evaluate his aesthetic, and by the 1980's, he had become modernism's most articulate apostate.
		Rochberg worked actively on two unpublished books: a theoretical treatise on chromaticism and a memoir entitled "Five Lines and Four Spaces." He had hoped to attend a performance of his Piano Quintet in E flat scheduled for this Sunday evening in Weill Recital Hall.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/01/arts/music/01rochberg.html?ex=1275278400&en=31cff61bece456ad&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (814 words)

	George Gershwin - FREE George Gershwin Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Detroit Free Press Mark Stryker review: George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess,' opening Saturday at the Detroit Opera House, is as difficult to classify as its composer.
		American Decades GERSHWIN, GEORGE 1898-1937 Songwriter/composer Brilliance Born Jacob Gershwine in Brooklyn, George Gershwin was the most brilliant figure among...
		George composed musicals, such as Lady Be Good (1924), a jazz opera Porgy and Bess (1935), and some...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Gershwin.html (1003 words)

	PostClassic:
		You might assume that the late George Rochberg (1918-2005) was not the kind of composer a Downtowner and experimentalist like me would be interested in, but you'd be wrong.
		Rochberg's book of essays The Aesthetics of Survival was a heartfelt plea for musical sanity, and even though it excoriated Cage along with Boulez and Babbitt, I found myself nodding in agreement with its compelling common sense.
		Of course, in retrospect Rochberg's neo-tonal and quotation-based music has fallen into an ironic genre popularly understood as postmodernism, but he never claimed that title for it, nor pursued the directions he did trying to be hip.
	www.artsjournal.com /postclassic/2005/05/no_slave_to_history_george_roc.html (802 words)

	BMOP :: George Rochberg: Black Sounds; Cantio Sacra; Phaedra
		George Rochberg thought of the piece as an "homage" to VarÃ¨se, and indeed with its stark, near-atonal language, repetitive phrases, and broad, colorful percussion array, it sounds a good deal like the French/American composer's music, including its scoring for wind ensemble.
		However, the most substantial and most compelling work on the disc is Phaedra (which admittedly has a far less catchy title than the top-billed Black Sounds).
		Rochberg set choice portions of Robert Lowell's translation of Racine's adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytos, which tells of Phaedra's illicit desire, unquenchable passion, and tragic death.
	www.bmop.org /news/press_coverage_detail.aspx?cid=39 (249 words)

	Philadelphia Museum of Art - Giving : Giving to the Museum : Featured Gifts
		The world-renowned composer George Rochberg and his wife Gene began their 50-year friendship with the Philadelphia Museum of Art as neighbors.
		Rochberg wrote the libretto for her husband's opera The Confidence Man (1982), based on Herman Melville's novel of the same name, and she studied acting at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, where she first met the master woodworker Wharton Esherick.
		Rochberg's significance was recognized recently when his manuscripts and memorabilia were requested by the prestigious international Paul Sacher Foundation's music archive in Basel, Switzerland—making him one of only five Americans selected to represent the United States' contributions to twentieth-century music.
	www.philamuseum.org /giving/441-279-86.html?page=2 (439 words)

	WingChunKuen.Com - Store - George Rochberg: Symphony No. 2; Imago Mundi
		Rochberg made his early reputation as a serialist, following service in WW II, where he was severly wounded, and study in Italy with Luigi Dallapicola (1904 -- 1975) His masterpiece in the serialist form is the Symphony no. 2 which consists of four movements together with a coda, all played as an interconnected whole.
		George Szell was an early champion of this score, and conducted in with the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland in 1959 and in New York in 1961.
		As elsewhere in his music, Rochberg is an imaginative orchestrator, with drums, cymbols, calls to alarm in the brass, dramatic use of the winds, and some quiet themes in the strings.
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	NewMusicbox
		Rochberg makes a persuasive case for his apostasy from musical modernism, decrying the arcane structures of integral serialism claiming they ultimately lead to music which is perceptually indeterminate.
		The Rochberg collection was published roughly around the same time as the collected essays of two other composers, both of whose writings are arguably as polemical and timely as his: Milton Babbitt and Steve Reich.
		And it seems rather certain that Rochberg’s tonality is far less approachable than the types presented by composers such as Corigliano or Kernis, both of who arrived on the scene several years later.
	www.newmusicbox.org /chatter/chatter.nmbx?id=4795 (1560 words)

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