Background
Rochberg, George was born on July 5, 1918 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris and Anna (Hoffman) Rochberg.
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The few pieces that George Rochberg wrote for flute are as bold and individualistic as anything in his oeuvre. His ability to compose in an astonishing variety of voices is clearly shown in the Caprice Variations, based on Paganinis famous melody, in homage to composers from Bach to Bartok. Christina Jennings transcriptions challenge the player with dynamic, technical and stylistic extremes. Rochbergs Ukiyo-e pieces are among his most beautiful and haunting works. Praised for her virtuoso technique and rich tone, flutist Christina Jennings is an acknowledged expert in Rochbergs music.
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George Rochbergs name enjoys a secure place in the canon of 20th century American composers, yet his large-scale, most challenging works remain little known. The power and sweep of Symphony No. 5 make a potent case for Rochberg as one of the centurys truly great symphonists, blending a mature twelve-tone mastery with elegiac evocations that range across the span of human history and experience, while Transcendental Variations is one of the most searingly beautiful works ever conceived for the intimate medium of the string orchestra.
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Opposites abound in George Rochberg's music, never more so perhaps than in Carnival Music, his only piano work to employ popular musical idioms, where one encounters exuberance and introspection, great power and deep reflection. His Four Short Sonatas hark back to a time when 'sonata' referred to a single movement composition, though Rochberg has cunningly grouped these brief pieces into a work that follows the Classical four-movement pattern. Unabashedly beautiful and shamelessly expressive, the Variations on an Original Theme is a virtuosic composition in the unsettling key of D flat major.
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Rochberg, George was born on July 5, 1918 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Morris and Anna (Hoffman) Rochberg.
Bachelor, Montclair State Teachers College, 1939. Doctor of Humane Letters, Montclair State Teachers College, 1962. Bachelor of Music, Curtis Institute Music, 1948.
Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1949. Doctor of Music (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1988. Doctor of Music (honorary), Philadelphia Museum Academy, 1964.
Doctor of Music (honorary), Curtis Institute Music, 1988.
Faculty, Curtis Institute Music, 1948-1954;
Fulbright fellow, American Academy, Rome, 1950-1951;
editor, director publications, Theo. Presser Company, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1951-1960;
chairman Music Department, University Pennsylvania, 1960-1968;
retired, 1983;
Annenberg professor humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1979.
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Served to Second lieutenant, infantry Army of the United States, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Musicological Society, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Gene Rosenfeld, August 18, 1941. Children: Paul Bernard (deceased), Frances Ruth.