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Richard Rodgers
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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902, Arverne, Queens, New York City – December 30, 1979, New York City) was an American composer of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music down to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal. Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch are the only persons to have won an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award, and Pulitzer Prize. Life and career Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Richard Rodgers was the son of Mortimer Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Rojazinsky, and Mamie Levy. Richard began playing the piano at age six. He attended P.S. 10, Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers’s later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. In 1921, Rodgers shifted his studies to the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard).[1] Rodgers was influenced by composers like Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child. Work with Hart In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Leavitt, a friend of Richard’s older brother. Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing a number of amateur shows. They made their
top songs
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You'll Never Walk Alone
5,1612Blue Moon
3,7033Getting To Know You
2,4804You'll Never Walk Alone - From "Carousel"
2,4375Edelweiss (From "The Sound of Music")
1,8726Edelweiss [The Sound of Music]
1,7787My Favourite Things
1,7068Something Good - From "The Sound Of Music"
1,5229Little Girl Blue
1,48510My Funny Valentine
1,395albums
Oklahoma! (1998 Royal National Theatre Recording)
The Sound Of Music - Greatest Hits
Cinderella (Original Television Cast Recording)
South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
RODGERS, Richard: Easy to Remember - Songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (1925-1946)
The King and I (Original Broadway Cast)
The King And I
State Fair (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks 1945 & 1962)
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Carousel
The Sound of Music
Something Good (From "The Sound Of Music")
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The King And I