Gershwin, George

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- Official site. Celebrating and archiving the lives of the brothers with history, timeline, references, anthology of selected films and shows, sound clips by noted artists, jukebox, and events. [Requires Flash.]

Al Levy's Music: George Gershwin :

- MIDI files of his preludes, rhapsodies, and opera Porgy and Bess.

Classic Cat: George Gershwin :

- Biographical material, links, and directory of MP3 audio files.

Classical Composers Database :

- Biography of the composer with summary list of concert works, photograph, and links.

Classical Music Archives: Gershwin :

- Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete files offered in MIDI format.

Classical Music Pages :

- Summary from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.

Classical Net :

- Biography, articles on American in Paris, I Got Rhythm, Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue and a select discography.

Down Beat Magazine :

- Includes vintage photos and a biography.

Encyclopedia: George Gershwin :

- Includes an article that includes a sketch about his brother Ira and a bibliography.

Famous Classical Composers: George Gershwin :

- Details the early life of this classical and jazz composer.

Find a Grave :

- Biographical sketch, photographs, pictures of mausoleum, cemetery information, and virtual memorial.

Humanities Web :

- Brief biography, selected works, photograph, quotations, discography, suggested reading, additional resources, chronology, and related articles.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) :

- Filmography noting movies using or based on his works, awards, biography and trivia.

Karadar :

- Article of the composer that includes life, works, photo gallery, and MIDI audio files.

The Michael O'Neal Singers :

- Composer of the month article about the composer.

MSN Encarta :

- Concise Encarta Encyclopedia article focuses on his musical and compositional career. Includes a photograph.

Music Scores :

- Some sheet music downloads and audio playback.

Naxos: George Gershwin :

- Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage, orchestral, and piano works, and discography.

New York City Opera :

- Biography covering most aspects of his musical life. Includes photograph.

Record Hall: George Gershwin :

- An analytical biography describing his works and style.

Song Trellis :

- Chord sequences of many famous tunes in MIDI and printable GIF format available for study, practice and improvisation.

Wikipedia: George Gershwin :

- Article with biography, music style, classical credits, musical theater credits, musical films, internal references, external links, and photographs.

WQXR: George Gershwin :

- Biography following him from self taught accompanist through composer of popular music, and on to more serious compositions; includes summary list of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.