Sessions, Roger (Huntington)

Sessions, Roger (Huntington)
born Dec. 28, 1896, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.
died March 16, 1985, Princeton, N.J.

U.S. composer.

He attended Harvard and Yale, lived in Italy and Germany (1925–33), and later taught principally at Princeton University (1935–45, 1953–65). His early interest in Neoclassicism was replaced с 1953 by his adoption of serialism. His works include the operas The Trial of Lucullus (1947) and Montezuma (1963), incidental music to The Black Maskers (1923), eight symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra (1982, Pulitzer Prize), and the cantata When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd (1970), as well as several widely read books on music.

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