Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher and musicologist.
11 Facts About Roger Sessions
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Roger Sessions initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School.
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Roger Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American Revolution.
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Roger Sessions's mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendant of Samuel Huntington, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
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Roger Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14.
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Roger Sessions was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.
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Roger Sessions continued to teach on a part-time basis at the Juilliard School from 1966 until 1983.
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Roger Sessions was a friend of both Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann.
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In 1968 Roger Sessions was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony.
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Roger Sessions died at the age of 88 in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Roger Sessions's works written up to 1930 or so are more or less neoclassical in style.