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  1. People In Music History
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  3. Gershwin, George (1898-1937)  American pianist and composer of many popular
  4. songs; extended his range (especially in applying jazz idioms to concert works)
  5. in Rhapsody in Blue (1924), piano concerto, Cuban Overture, An American in
  6. Paris, opera Porgy and Bess, piano preludes. (The orchestration of Rhapsody in
  7. Blue is by F. Grofe; of the other works, by Gershwin himself.) Studied with R.
  8. Goldmark but was mainly self-taught. Died after an unsuccessful brain
  9. operation.
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