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George Gershwin
New York City, New York, USA
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Amon…
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George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime".
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2025
New Year's Eve Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2025
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Badineries
Movie Music
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2025
Gershwin in New York - La Folle Journée de Nantes 2025
Movie Compositor
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2025
OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Fazil Say @ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music
Movie Original Music Composer
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2024
Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris
Movie Compositor
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2024
The Chicken Hunter
Movie Music
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2024
Magic Trap
Movie Music
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2024
Martynas Levickis Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Movie Compositor
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2024
Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” with Yuja Wang With the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
New Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Summertime
Movie Music
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2022
Maestro
Movie Music Producer
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2022
The Director's Cut
Movie Compositor
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2022
Nick Crumbs and the Mystery of the Missing Cake
Movie Music
More credits
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2022
Kissin performs Gershwin, Berg and Chopin Salzburg Festival 2021
Movie Compositor
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2021
Starstruck: Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet
Movie Music
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2020
George Gershwin Alone
Movie Music
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2020
Porgy and Bess - Metropolitan Opera
Movie Songs
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2020
Ritorno alla musica
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2018
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2018
An American in Paris: The Musical
Movie Musical
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2017
Manhattan Magic
Movie Music
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2017
Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla
TV show Original Music Composer
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2015
London Symphony Orchestra: Shostakovich 5
Movie Music
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2009
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Movie Songs
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2008
Butterfly
Movie Compositor
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2002
Porgy and Bess
Movie Music
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2000
Fantasia 2000
Movie Music
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1999
Crazy for You
Movie Musical
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1993
Porgy and Bess
Movie Music
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1990
Dance Crazy in Hollywood
Movie Self - Composer (archive footage)
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1985
A Strange Love Affair
Movie Music
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Music
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1978
Contact
Movie Music
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Putting on the Ritz
Movie Music
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1968
The Jazz Age
TV show Music
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1964
Kiss Me, Stupid
Movie Songs
