George Gershwin (1898-1937)

American

Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess, Piano Concerto in F

• Gershwin never attended a music conservatory and still became a talented and favorite American composer.
• Gershwin would play tennis with Arnold Achoenberg, a great German composer, once a week!
• One of Gershwin’s great ‘Folk Operas’ known as Porgy and Bess was a box office flop when it first premiered in 1935.