Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

Works

George Gershwin

An American in Paris (arr. for two pianos)

 

In 1924, George Gershwin presented the public with his Rhapsody in Blue, a composition for piano and jazz band, which was greeted with triumphal success and opened the way to the controversial experiment known as “symphonic jazz.” Composed four years after the Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris bears the more ambitious title of “tone-poem for orchestra,” and it is to be attributed entirely to Gershwin. In fact, the composition demonstrates an extremely refined technical and instrumental mastery, in which the free form of the symphonic poem melds with jazz-derived musical elements.

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