Roger Sessions
Roger Sessions (1896–1985) was an American musicologist, music theorist and university teacher.
Also recorded as Roger Huntington Sessions; Roger H. Sessions.
Overview
Born at Brooklyn in 1896, died at Princeton in 1985.
In detail
Roger Sessions studied at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley and Yale School of Music. training under Horatio Parker and Ernest Bloch is recorded. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Einojuhani Rautavaara are recorded as having studied under Roger Sessions. the recorded working language is English.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera, symphony and classical music.
Employment is recorded with Princeton University, Smith College and University of California, Berkeley. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Works named in the authority record are Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 7.
Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sources
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“Roger Sessions”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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