Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896–1985) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions' friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced this, but he would modify the technique to develop a unique style involving rows to supply melodic thematic material, while composing the subsidiary parts in a free and dissonant manner.
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Born | (1896-12-28)December 28, 1896 New York, New York, U.S. |
Died | March 6, 1985(1985-03-06) (aged 88) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University, Yale University |
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Spouses | Barbara Foster
(m. 1920; div. 1936)Sarah Elizabeth Frank
(m. 1936) |
Children | 2 |
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