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About the Composer

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George Gershwin

The most successful composer of musicals in the 1920s, he wrote 28 musicals, largely to lyrics by his brother Ira, and more than 500 songs (including for 23 musicals by others). His fame today is based on his symphonic works and his opera “Porgy and Bess.”

1898Born Jacob Gershwine into ordinary circumstances in Brooklyn (New York) on September 26.
1912Piano studies with Charles Hambitzer. The music of Berlin and Kern serves as his model.
1914–17Employment in Tin Pan Alley as a song plugger for Jerome H. Remick and Company, publishers of popular music. Soon thereafter employed as a rehearsal pianist.
1918Composer of songs for publisher T. B. Harms.
1919First Broadway musical “La La Lucille.”
1915–21Studies theory with Edward Kilenyi, a pupil of Mascagni.
1920–24Music for the revues “George White’s Scandals.”
1921Attends summer courses at New York’s Columbia University.
1924“Rhapsody in Blue” for the band of Paul Whiteman, the then-king of jazz; the musical “Lady, Be Good!”, starring Fred and Adele Astaire, and his first collaboration with his brother Ira, serves as his breakthrough as a composer for theater.
1925Piano Concerto in F major.
1926Premiere of the musical “Oh, Kay!”
1926/28Travels to Europe.
1928Symphonic poem “An American in Paris.”
1930Premiere of the musical “Girl Crazy.”
1931Score for the film “Delicious.”
1935Premiere of the opera “Porgy and Bess,” today his best-known stage work.
1936Score for the film “Shall We Dance?”
1937Death in Los Angeles on July 11.

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About the Authors

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Norbert Gertsch (Editor)

Dr. Norbert Gertsch, born in 1967 in Rheinkamp/Moers, studied piano solo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and read musicology and philosophy at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg and the Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg on a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. In 1996 he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (as part of the New Complete Edition) under Ludwig Finscher.

In the following year, he began to work at G. Henle Publishers, initially as an editor for electronic publishing. After working on a two-year project (1999–2000) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) preparing a new Beethoven Catalogue of Works, he became a scholarly editor at G. Henle Publishers. In 2003 he became Editor-in-Chief, in 2009 Deputy Managing Director and Head of Publishing. As of 1 January 2024, the Executive Board of the Günter Henle Foundation has appointed Dr. Norbert Gertsch, as the new managing director, succeeding Dr. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert.

Gertsch has published many Urtext editions for G. Henle Publishers, including volumes for a new edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas together with Murray Perahia.

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G. Henle Verlag

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G. Henle Verlag e.K.
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