p, 1918-2005 US, Paterson, New Jersey
Composer of Classical
George Rochberg (July 5, 1918 – May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the practice following the death of his teenage son in 1964; he claimed this compositional technique had proved inadequate to express his grief and had found it empty of expressive intent. By the 1970s, Rochberg's use of tonal passages in his music had invoked controversy among critics and fellow composers. A teacher at the University of Pennsylvania until 1983, Rochberg also served as chairman of its music department until 1968 and was named the first Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in 1978. For notable students See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#George Rochberg.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Piano Music • 1: Circles Of Fire | George Rochberg, Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo | 2010 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 | George Rochberg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee | 2007 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 / Imago Mundi | George Rochberg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee | 2005 | Album |
Violin Concerto (Restored Original Version) | George Rochberg - Peter Sheppard, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee | 2004 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Black Sounds / Transcendental Variations | George Rochberg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee | 2003 | Album |
Caprice Variations | George Rochberg | 2003 | Album |
Black Sounds • Cantio Sacra • Phaedra | George Rochberg - Boston Modern Orchestra Project • Gil Rose | 2002 | Album |
Clarinet Concertos | Dominick Argento, George Rochberg / Anthony Gigliotti, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Felix Chiu-Sen Chen | 2001 | Album |
American Viola Works | Cathy Basrak, William Koehler, Robert Koenig - Music By George Rochberg, Frederick Jacobi, Alan Shulman, Quincy Porter, Lowell Liebermann | 2000 | Album |
Eden: Out Of Time & Out Of Space: Chamber And Solo Works For Guitar | George Rochberg - The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, David Shifrin, Eliot Fisk, Paula Robison | 2000 | Album |
American Music In The 1990's | The Fischer Duo : Norman Fischer | 2000 | Album |
String Quartets Nos. 3-6 | George Rochberg - The Concord String Quartet | 1999 | Compil. |
The 3 Piano Trios | George Rochberg - The Kapell Trio | 1998 | Album |
Volume One: String Quartet No. 1 • Contra Mortem Et Tempus • Second Symphony | George Rochberg | 1997 | Compil. |
Four Decades Of Piano Music | George Rochberg, Martha Thomas | 1997 | Album |
A Life In Music - Stravinsky / Rochberg: Violin Concertos | Isaac Stern - Igor Stravinsky, George Rochberg | 1995 | Album |
Caprice Variations | George Rochberg, Eliot Fisk | 1994 | Album |
Spring Music | David Baker · George Rochberg · Ned Rorem - Beaux Arts Trio | 1994 | Album |
American Music For Viola & Piano | George Rochberg, Paul Creston, Bernhard Heiden, Elliott Carter - Lawrence Wheeler, Betty Ruth Tomfohrde | 1994 | Album |
Transatlantic Piano | John McCabe Plays John Adams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, George Rochberg, André Previn | 1991 | Album |
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra / Prism | The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta - George Rochberg / Jacob Druckman | 1986 | Album |
Sue Ann Kahn Plays Schickele, Rochberg, Riegger, Luening | Sue Ann Kahn Plays Peter Schickele, George Rochberg, Wallingford Riegger, Otto Luening | 1986 | Album |
Quartet No. 7 / String Quartet, Op. 11 • Dover Beach, Op. 3 | George Rochberg / Samuel Barber - Leslie Guinn • The Concord String Quartet | 1983 | Album |
New Music For Mezzo-Soprano | Sharon Mabry, George Rochberg, Thomas Pasatieri, Kenton Coe | 1983 | Album |
Syzygy / Second Symphony | David Del Tredici / George Rochberg | 1983 | Compil. |
Quartets Nos. 4, 5 And 6 | George Rochberg, The Concord String Quartet | 1982 | Album |
Contemporary American Chamber Music | George Crumb / George Rochberg / University of New South Wales Ensemble | 1982 | Album |
The Twentieth Century Consort | The Twentieth Century Consort, Christopher Kendall - Joseph Schwantner / Gerald Chenoweth / William Penn / Maurice Wright / George Rochberg | 1981 | Album |
Quintet for Piano and String Quartet | George Rochberg, The Concord String Quartet, Alan Marks | 1981 | Album |
Music For Oboe (La Bocca Della Verita / Diaphonic Suite No. 1 / Rhapsodie / Trio / Wave Canon / Work) | James Ostryniec - George Rochberg / Ruth Crawford Seeger / Ralph Shapey / Gunther Schuller / Joseph Julian / Lawrence Singer | 1980 | Album |
Naumburg Performing Award Winners Play Naumburg Commissions (Woodwind Quintet / Slow Fires Of Autumn) | John Harbison / George Rochberg | 1980 | Album |
Violin Concerto | André Previn, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Stern / George Rochberg | 1979 | Album |
Three Sides Of George Rochberg | George Rochberg | 1977 | Album |
Caprice Variations (For Unaccompanied Violin) | Zvi Zeitlin - George Rochberg | 1977 | Album |
George Rochberg - Henry Cowell - John Russo - David Cope | George Rochberg, Henry Cowell, John Russo, David Cope | 1976 | Album |
Songs In Praise Of Krishna | George Rochberg | 1976 | Album |
String Quartet No. 1 / Duo Concertante / Ricordanza | George Rochberg - The Concord String Quartet | 1975 | Album |
Music For The Magic Theater / Chamber Symphony For Nine Instruments | George Rochberg - Oberlin College Conservatory Orchestra, Kenneth Moore | 1975 | Album |
Spectrum: New American Music, Volume IV | Stefan Wolpe / George Rochberg / Jeff Jones - Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan DeGaetani | 1974 | Album |
String Quartet No 2 / Chamber Music II | George Rochberg / Robert Suderburg | 1974 | Album |
Tableaux / "O, The Chimneys" | George Rochberg, Jan DeGaetani, Penn Contemporary Players, Richard Wernick / Shulamit Ran, Gloria Davy, New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble, A. Robert Johnson | 1973 | Album |
String Quartet No. 3 | George Rochberg - The Concord String Quartet | 1973 | Album |
Trio For Violin, Cello And Piano / Dandelion Wine / Trio For Oboe Clarinet And Bassoon | George Rochberg / Andrew Imbrie / Donald Waxman | 1973 | Album |
Metamorphosis | Donald Erb : George Rochberg : Dorrance Stalvey | 1970 | Album |
Trombone Concerto/Contra Mortem Et Tempus/Janissary Music | Robert Parris / George Rochberg / Charles Wuorinen | 1968 | Album |
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag (For Mixed Chorus And Instrumental Ensemble) / String Quartet No. 2, With Soprano | Salvatore Martirano / George Rochberg | 1963 | Album |
First Recordings Of Naumberg Award Compositions | George Barati, George Rochberg, Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1962 | Album |
Spectrum: New American Music, Volume II | Stefan Wolpe / George Rochberg / Seymour Shifrin - Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Jan DeGaetani | Album |