According to what George Gershwin achieved in his lifetime, it is clear that he was a hard working and determined person. Even at the last stages of his life he wrote music, showing his attitude towards his career.

Piano, vibraphone, xylophone, mallets, bongos, timbales, voice, strings, trombones.

George Gershwin left school at the age of fifteen. As far as music is concerned, George tried various piano teachers for two year before he was introduced to Charles Hambitzer, the pianist in the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Hambitzer remained George's teacher and mentor until his death in 1918.

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Yes, George Gershwin performed in Carnegie Hall. In 1925 he performed his Piano Concerto.

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The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is an award given to a composer or performer for their lifetime contributions to popular music.

Yes. Ira and Arthur were his brothers and Frances was his sister.

Gershwin was one of the first composers to successfully combine jazz music and the "Musical" format. His Porgy and Bess was is considered one of the greatest musicals of the 20th century. He also incorporated jazz of the early twentieth century into the repertoire of the symphony orchestra. Jazz was usually left to small wind combos in small club settings; but with is Rhapsody in Blue, he showed how a full symphony (including strings, and double reeds- the least jazzy of all instruments) can embrace the syncopations and highly stylized sounds of this new genre.

His works ranges from classical to Broadway, but he is perhaps most known for his jazz melodies.

Arthur, Ira, and Francis Gershowitz. Francis was the youngest and only girl.

Moishe Gershovitz changed his name to Gershvin before his chidren were born. Their name was Gershvin. George changed the spelling to Gershwin after he became a professional musician, and the rest of his family followed suit.

During Cole Porter's musical career he literally wrote hundreds of songs. His first song titled Cora was written in 1911.

George Gershwin was immensely famous during his lifetime, but he doesn't seem to have won any awards. He and his brother Ira were nominated, in 1938, for an Academy Award for the best song in a film, "They Can't Take That Away From Me," from the movie "Shall We Dance?". In 1932 the musical play "Of Thee I Sing" won the Pulitzer Prize for the author and the lyricist, Ira Gershwin. George's music was passed over. There was no Pulitzer Prize in music until 1943.

Robert Pattinson started to play the piano since he was 3 or four years old.

He's known as a composer of jazz / showtunes. Together with his brother, Ira, they wrote many famous songs in the 1920's and 30's.

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Though many are not aware, the American composer George Gershwin was not only an opera composer. Indeed, Gershwin began his career mainly through his opera writing (with the collaboration of his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin), but Gershwin was also a very successful general and world musician. Gershwin wrote many Broadway hits and numerous classical pieces. All of those contributed greatly to the general advancement of American music into what it is today. But most of all, Gershwin influenced American popular music through his Jazz composing. Gershwin composed countless Jazz pieces, some of which still hold great fame in American culture. Musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, John Coltrane and many others sang, played, or were greatly influenced by Gershwin's style and writing technique. Some might claim that Gershwin's influence on the musicians mentioned above cannot be considered an influence on modern American popular music like hip-hop and rap, yet those who make that claim are unaware of the musical history of both those interesting music genres. Both hip-hop's and rap's predecessors are Rock & Roll and Blues. Where did Rock & Roll and Blues evolve from? Jazz! Not many know, but the very early Rock & Roll bands featured mainly the saxophone as their lead instrument, quite the Jazzy feeling.

Gershwin's writing influenced Jazz, which created the music scene as we know it today. Gershwin (amongst many others), is one of the grandparents of modern American popular music.

His birth name was Jacob Gershovitz and he changed it to George Gershwin

Ross Gorman. He was the clarinetist in Paul Whiteman's band in 1924.

No. He was involved with Kay Swift for a decade, and she was the most significant woman in his life, but they never married.

It's a fantasy with jazz influences, I'm not sure you can define it.

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