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George Rochberg
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George Rochberg, (July 5, 1918, Paterson, New Jersey – May 29, 2005, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Rochberg attended the Mannes College of Music, where one of his teachers was George Szell. He was the chairman of the music department at the University of Pennsylvania until 1968, and continued to teach there until 1983. His notable students include Vincent McDermott. After a period of experimentation with serialism, Rochberg abandoned it after 1963 when his son died, saying that serialism was empty of expressive emotion and was inadequate to express his grief and rage. By the seventies he had become controversial for the use of tonal passages in his music. His use of tonality first became widely known through the String Quartet no. 3 (1972), which includes an entire set of variations that are in the style of late Beethoven. Another movement of the quartet contains passages reminiscent of the music of Gustav Mahler. This use of tonality caused critics to classify him as a neoromantic composer. He compared atonality to abstract art and tonality to concrete art and compared his artistic evolution with Philip Guston's, saying "the tension between concreteness and abstraction" is a fundamental issue for both of them (Rochberg, 1992). Of the works composed early in his career, the Symphony No. 2 (1955-56) stands out as an accomplished serial composition by an American composer. Rochberg is perhaps best known for his String Quar
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Partita-Variations: VII. Tema: Ballade
8832Variations on "Canon in D Major, P. 37"
1833Viola Sonata: I. Allegro moderato
1834Epilogue
1735Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 27. Aria
1456Viola Sonata: II. Adagio Lamentoso
1267String Quartet No. 3: Part A (Introduzione: Fantasia & March)
1218Black Sounds
1169Viola Sonata: III. Fantasia: Epilogue
11010String Quartet No. 3: Part B (Variations)
108albums
Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 3
ROCHBERG: Symphony No. 5 / Black Sounds
ROCHBERG: Violin Concerto
ROCHBERG: Black Sounds / Cantio Sacra / Phaedra
George Rochberg: String Quartets 3-6
A Paganini - Virtuoso Violin Music
ROCHBERG: Symphony No. 2 / Imago Mundi
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Rochberg: Var. 27. Aria (from Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin. Version for Solo Guitar)
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Rochberg: Caprice Variations (transcribed for solo guitar)
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Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D
Rochberg: Complete Flute Music, Vol. 1
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Psalms of Joy and Sorrow