George Rochberg

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George Rochberg (July 5, 1918 – May 29, 2005) was an American composer of modern classical music.

Rochberg, a serial composer, halted the activity after his teenage son's death in 1964; he said that the compositional device had been too ineffective to express his sadness and had left it empty of expressive intent.

Rochberg's use of tonal passages in his music had sparked controversy among critics and fellow composers by the 1970s.

Rochberg, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1984, served as chairman of the university's music department until 1968, and was named the first Annenberg Professor of Humanities in 1978.

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Life

Rochberg, a native of Paterson, New Jersey, first attended Mannes College of Music, where his mentors included George Szell and Hans Weisse, then the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and Gian Carlo Menotti. During World War II, he served in the United States Army in the infantry. He was Jewish.

Rochberg served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania's music department from 1968 to 1983 and then continued to teach there until 1983. He was named the first Annenberg Professor of Humanities in 1978.

In 1941, he married Gene Rosenfeld and had two children, Paul and Francesca. His son died of a brain tumor in 1964.

Rochberg died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, at the age of 86. The bulk of his works are held in Basel, Switzerland, at the Paul Sacher Foundation. Some of them can also be found in the Music Division of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Center in Washington, D.C., the University of Pennsylvania, the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and the City University of New York.

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Awards and recognitions

• 1950–1951 – Fulbright Fellow
• 1950–52 – Fellow of American Academy in Rome
• 1952 – George Gershwin Memorial Award for Night Music
• 1956 – Society for the Publication of American Music award for String Quartet No. 1
• 1956 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1959 – First prize in Italian ISCM International Music Competition for Cheltenham Concerto
• 1961 – Naumburg Recording Award for Symphony No. 2
• 1962 – Honorary degree from Montclair State University
• 1964 – Honorary degree from University of the Arts
• 1966 – Prix Italia for Black Sounds
• 1966 – Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1972 – Naumburg Chamber Composition Award for String Quartet No. 3
• 1972–74 – National Endowment for the Arts Grants
• 1979 – Kennedy Center Friedhelm Award for String Quartet No. 4
• 1980 – Honorary degree from University of Michigan
• 1985 – Honorary degree from University of Pennsylvania
• 1985 – Gold Medal at Brandeis Creative Arts Awards
• 1986 – Lancaster Symphony Composers Award
• 1987 – University of Bridgeport's Andre and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award
• 1987 – Alfred I. duPont Composer's Award
• 1991 – Bellagio artist in residence
• 1994 – Honorary degree from Miami University
• 1997 – Longy School of Music Distinguished Achievement Award
• 1998 – Grammy Award (nominated) "String Quartet No. 3"
• 1999 – ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2004 – Grammy Award (nominated) "String Quartet No. 5"
• 2006 – Deems Taylor Award for The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music