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  1. George Gershwin ( / ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn /; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and ...

  2. May 30, 2024 · George Gershwin (born September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 11, 1937, Hollywood, California) was one of the most significant and popular American composers of all time. He wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, but important as well are his orchestral and piano compositions in which he blended, in varying degrees ...

  3. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898 as Jacob Gershowitz. He hailed from a Russian Jewish family. His father, Morris (Moishe) Gershowitz, changed the family name to Gershvin on immigrating to United States from St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1890s.

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Early Life. Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Gershwin began his foray into music at age 11 when his family...

  5. Sep 26, 2018 · George Gershwins too-short life ended on a blue note. Health Sep 26, 2018 3:20 PM EDT. Wednesday marks the 120th birthday of George Gershwin, the celebrated composer of “Rhapsody in...

  6. It was in Hollywood, while working on the score of THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES, that George Gershwin died of a brain tumor; he was not quite 39 years old. Countless people throughout the world, who knew Gershwin only through his work, were stunned by the news as if they had suffered a personal loss.

  7. May 14, 2018 · views 2,911,433 updated May 14 2018. George Gershwin. Personal. Born Jacob Gershvin, September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Moshe (a businessman) and Rose (Bruskin) Gershvin; died of a brain tumor, July 11, 1937, in Beverly Hills, CA.

  8. Jan 19, 1993 · George Gershwin's music is virtually always in the air, but the details of his personal life have remained something of a mystery. It may well be that at this point, nearly 56 years after...

  9. Jun 7, 2006 · June 7, 2006. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, but...

  10. 1898- 1937 Born/Died. 1970 Inducted. Renowned works in jazz, classical, Broadway and film music. George Gershwin was born in New York City on September 26, 1898, as "Jacob Gershvin" - a child of a Russian immigrant whose original name was Gershovitz but adapted to the Americanized "Gershwin".

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