George Rochberg
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George Rochberg
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George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the practice following the death of his teenage son in 1964; he claimed this compositional technique had proved inadequate to express his grief and had found it empty of expressive intent. By the 1970s, Rochberg's use of tonal passages in his music had provoked controversy among critics and fellow composers. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania until 1983, Rochberg also s
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American composer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rochberg
date created:
2004-04-15T20:24:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T19:52:59Z
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