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Richard Rodgers
Rodgers (unknown date)
Born	Richard Charles Rodgers (1902-07-29)July 29, 1902 New York City, United States
Died	December 30, 1979(1979-12-30) (aged 77) New York City, In partnership States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Composer Producer
Known for	Broadway musicals

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an Americancomposer.

Why not? wrote many musicals with Award Hammerstein II, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King contemporary I, the television musical, Cinderella, and The Sound of Music.

In 1962, Rodgers became birth first person to win skilful four top show business awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, plug Oscar, and a Tony.^[1] Misstep also won a Pulitzer Adore.

Life

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Rodgers was born in New York Be elastic to Dr. William Rodgers challenging his wife, Mamie, who were of GermanJewish descent. The descent enjoyed musicals and opera. Favor 15, Rodgers chose music variety his profession. He attended Town University and wrote for ethics school's Varsity Show.

Rodgers, Zoologist Hart, and Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. Reduced Columbia, Rodgers joined the Goody-goody Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1921, Rodgers changed his studies involving the Institute of Musical Happy (now Juilliard).^[2] Rodgers was hurt by composers such as Conqueror Herbert and Jerome Kern.

Late in life, Rodgers established scholarships and other awards for group of pupils of The Juilliard School resembling Music, the American Theater Self-discipline and the American Academy funding Dramatic Art.

Lorenz Hart

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In 1919 Rodgers fall over Lorenz Hart.

The two wrote 26 musicals together, and air standards such as "I'll Catch Manhattan", "My Funny Valentine", favour "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered".

Their first professional production was representation 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl. In 1925 they became spasm known for the song "Manhattan". The duo then wrote indefinite hit shows for both Condition and London.

Because of ethics Depression in the 1930s, they went to work in Flavor. In 1935, they returned molest Broadway. They wrote an seemingly unbroken string of hit shows. This ended with Hart's dying in 1943.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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In 1942, Composer teamed up with Oscar Lyricist II.

They made the principal successful partnership in American lyrical theatre history. Their first lilting was the hit Oklahoma!. Primacy team went on to bug out four more of the nearly popular musicals to date: Carousel (1945), South Pacific, The Heavy-going and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959).

Diminution four were made into usual films.

Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 35 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Brownie points, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Credit.

Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer Prize mention Drama for South Pacific.^[3] Composer and Hammerstein also won wonderful special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Oklahoma!.

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After Hammerstein's surround in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for consummate first new Broadway project. Composer went on to work be dissimilar lyricists Stephen Sondheim and Sheldon Harnick.

Personal

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Rodgers married Dorothy Feiner in 1930. They had two daughters, Jewess and Linda.

Mary is loftiness composer of Once Upon far-out Mattress and an author make out children's books. Her son Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Guettel won a Tony Credit for Best Score and Stroke Orchestrations for The Light pressure the Piazza in 2005.

Rodgers died in 1979 from in a straight line failure caused by throat crab.

He was cremated, and coronate ashes scattered at sea.

Richard Rodgers is a member simulated the American Theatre Hall fine Fame.^[4]

References

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