Roger Sessions

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Roger Sessions was an influential 20th-century American composer and teacher known for his complex, intellectually rigorous modernist works and significant impact on contemporary classical music.

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Roger Sessions canonical 7

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instanceOf American composer ⓘ
composer ⓘ
human ⓘ
music educator ⓘ
music theorist ⓘ
awardReceived National Medal of Arts ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for Music ⓘ
birthName Roger Huntington Sessions ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1896-12-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1985-03-16 ⓘ
educatedAt Harvard University ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ
employer Juilliard School ⓘ
Mannes School of Music ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
genre chamber music ⓘ
choral music ⓘ
contemporary classical music ⓘ
opera ⓘ
orchestral music ⓘ
piano music ⓘ
influenced David Diamond ⓘ
Milton Babbitt ⓘ
Peter Maxwell Davies ⓘ
influencedBy Arnold Schoenberg ⓘ
Gustav Mahler ⓘ
Johannes Brahms ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Letters ⓘ
movement modernism ⓘ
name Roger Sessions ⓘ
notableStudent David Diamond ⓘ
Milton Babbitt ⓘ
Peter Maxwell Davies ⓘ
notableWork Montezuma ⓘ
Symphony No. 1 ⓘ
Symphony No. 2 ⓘ
Symphony No. 3 ⓘ
Symphony No. 4 ⓘ
Symphony No. 5 ⓘ
Symphony No. 6 ⓘ
Symphony No. 7 ⓘ
Symphony No. 8 ⓘ
The Black Maskers ⓘ
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ
occupation composer ⓘ
music theorist ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth Brooklyn, New York, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ
style atonal music ⓘ
serialism ⓘ

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Dimitri Mitropoulos → supportedComposer → Roger Sessions ⓘ
Leonard Rosenman → studiedUnder → Roger Sessions ⓘ
Leonard Rosenman → influencedBy → Roger Sessions ⓘ
Milton Babbitt → studiedUnder → Roger Sessions ⓘ
Roger Sessions → name → Roger Sessions ⓘ
Ursula Mamlok → studiedUnder → Roger Sessions ⓘ