Biography
The grandson of the shooting and son of the shoemaker George Gershvin committed a revolution in music, like a fabulous prince showing that Jazz is not a poor stepdaughter, but Tsarevna, worthy of attention of the highest society. King Musiklov lived a short, but bright life.
The Great Composer was born in Brooklyn in September 1898 in the family of Jewish immigrants. The father of the boy Moishe Hershovitz left the Russian capital 8 years before George. Changes the name on Morris Gershvin and setting around to work on a shoe plant, a man soon married a native Odessa Rose Bar.
The spouse gave Morris four children from whom George, originally called Yakov, was the second and most restless. The guy did not like to learn, staring in a fight, squeezed and had a chance to become Gangster, like the characters of the film "Once in America." Parents worried the future biography of the Son.
Everything changed when George heard the game of the young violinist Max Rosen, who performed the "humor of" Antonina Dvoraik. Walking Gershwin waited a virtozoa in the rain of one and a half hours and became friends with him.
Max introduced a new comrade with the musical universe, and the future composer began to reproduce the loved melodies on the piano of Brother Ayras.
Although George did not finish a music school, but quickly overtaken in the executive skill of the older relative and began to earn the game in restaurants, tutoring and performances in the store of instruments and records as a pianist-popularizer. From 20 years old, Gershvin began to live exclusively for fees - in additional earnings, the musician no longer needed.
Music
George Gershwin - author of more than 300 songs, 9 musicals, 2 operas and a number of works for piano. The Most Popular Opera "Porgi and Bess" and "Rhapsody in the style of blues" (also known as "Rapseody in blues tones").There is such a legend about the creation of Rhapsody: "Jazz emperor" Paul Whiteman wanted a simphonize favorite musical style and asked Gershwin to write a serious classic work for his orchestra. The composer skeptically reacted to the suggestion of jazzman, but when the floor advertised the future masterpiece in the newspapers, was forced to create a famous melody in less than a month.
The musical "American in Paris" Gershvin wrote, being under the impression of a three-year voyage in Europe. An innovation of a musician manifested itself in the work, boldly uniting classics and a song, jazz and folklore.
"Porgi and Bess" - the first American performance, which had the right to attend the audience of various races. An impressed by the novel of the dubber of Heivard about the life of African Americans, Gershvin more than a year and a half sharpened himself in a small Negro village in South Carolina and, watching the life of the inhabitants, worked his masterpiece. After the premiere of ovation thundered 15 minutes.
"Lullaby Clara", coming four times in the opera and known as the composition "Summertime", recognized as the most popular melody of the 20th century. In terms of the number of cable versions, she overtook even the Bitlovsk "yesterday". There is a version that there was not only the music of African Americans, but also the Ukrainian lullaby "oh, walk Kolo Vіkon", heard during the tour of the Malorosiysk vocal team in the United States.
Personal life
In his youth George Gershwin was fond of boxing, skates and playing the ball, and in mature years - painting and literature. The portrait will be incomplete if you do not mention the composer's wit. So, when one of the customers, outraged by the disruption of the deadlines, promised in a day to strangle the musician in the absence of the promised score and stressed that he always holds promises, Gershwin parried that if he had worked only with his hands, he would not have violated Dedilan.
Although Gershwin did not marry and left the offspring, the personal life of the great composer, which brings an interesting man on the photo, cannot be called poor on the events. The first love of the young musician became Alexander Pale - the student of George.
10 years old did not lack out the officially union of Hershwin with a grades-composer Kay Swift, which for the sake of the author's "Rhapsodia in the style of blues" left a financier husband. After the death of George, the woman helped his brother of the late - Ire - in working on the conversion of the heritage of the composer to music for the film "Horrible Miss Pilgrim".
In the 1930s, Gershwin was unrequited to fell in love with Charlie Chaplin's wife, an actress Flight of Goddar, who was explained three times in love. After 20 years after the death of the composer, the artist married the writer Erich Maria Remarka.
An interesting fact: Beloved George, unlike celebrity, lived long: flight - almost 80 years, and Kay - 95. Brother and co-author of the composer Airra Gershwin can also be attributed to the number of long-livers: the poet died in 86 years.
Death
As a child, the future creator of the symphodzhaz sometimes disconnected from the outside world. Until 1937, the peculiarity of the brain activity of George did not interfere with productive creativity, and only close to the strangeness of the composer.
However, speaking on the last year of life together with the symphony orchestra Pierre Monte, Gershvin disconnected directly on the scene. Doctors initially defended the composer that happened to overwork, caused by intensive work on the opera "Porgi and Bess", but after numerous fainting and complaints of migraine at Gershvin revealed malignant neoplasm.
Emergency operation did not save the composer. The cause of death at the age of 38 has become brain cancer. The musician buried on the Hills Westcomter Cemetery. The deductions from the execution of musical works of Gershwin the heirs ended only in 2007.
Musical works
- 1919 - "Laa La, Lucille"
- 1923 - "135th Street"
- 1924 - "Rhapsody in the style of blues for piano with orchestra"
- 1924 - "Be kind, lady"
- 1925 - "About Kay"
- 1926 - "Three Preludes for Piano"
- 1927 - "Rosalie"
- 1927 - "Let the orchestra runday"
- 1927 - "Funny face"
- 1928 - "American in Paris"
- 1930 - "Mad"
- 1931 - "I sing about you"
- 1933 - "Let them eat cupcake"
- 1935 - "Porgi and Bess"