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George Rochberg, (July 5, 1918, Paterson, New Jersey – May 29, 2005, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American composer. He abandoned serialism after 1963 when his son died, saying that serial music was empty of expressive emotion & was poor to express his grief & rage. Per seventies he was causing contention by having typically apparently tonal music. He equated atonality to abstract art and tonality to concrete art and compared his artistic evolution by using Philip Guston's, saying "the tension between concreteness and abstraction" is a fundamental issue for each of the children (Rochberg, 1992). Rochberg is mayhap better known for his "String Quartet No. 6" (recorded per Concord String Quartet), which includes a movement of variations on the Pachelbel Canon in D. Numerous of his works were musical collages of quotations from more composers. "Contra Mortem et Tempus", for expample, contains passages from either Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Edgard Varese and Charles Ives. Rochberg attended a Mannes College of Music, where one of his teachers was George Szell. He was a chairwoman of a department of music at the University of Pennsylvania until 1968, and continued to teach there until 1983.
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George Rochberg's Revolution Essay concerning the artistic integrity, aesthetic, and musically prophetic role of the composer, especially concerning his championship of tonality during the time of modernist atonality. By Michael Linton for First Things. Miscellaneous Songs by Rochberg Listing from recmusic.org includes alternate settings of certain pieces. George Rochberg Program notes for the Sierra Chamber Society's performance of the Recordanza discussing how current thought and life experiences color memories both mental and musical. Theodore Presser: George Rochberg Picture, biography, awards and honors, list of works, discography, and commentary on the music. |
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