Romanticist Composer George Rochberg Dies

The Washington Post | June 2, 2005| | Copyright

Classical composer George Rochberg, 86, who was propelled by private tragedy to defy the prevailing style of composition of his time and, in so doing, helped usher in a new era of musical romanticism, died May 29 at a hospital in Philadelphia of complications following surgery earlier in the month. He lived in Newtown Square, Pa.

After a quarter-century as a respected academic composer in the "serial" or "12-tone" style propounded by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern in the 1930s and 1940s, Mr. Rochberg broke free in the late 1960s and never looked back.

Early in his career, he wrote in ...

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