“Life is a lot like jazz, it’s best when you improvise!” George Gershwin (1898-1937)
George Gershwin was one of the only composers of his era to seamlessly bridge the gap between classical music and jazz. Browse our sheet music scores, take a look at Summertime, Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, and much more, and enjoy all his great works with Stretta Music today!
The American composer, pianist and conductor George Gershwin wrote all sorts of works, for many different musical forces. His symphonic masterpiece from 1924 Rhapsody in Blue is written for piano and orchestra, and beautifully combines true classical composition with lots of exciting jazz elements. He also stretched the boundaries of classical theatre with his 1935 jazz opera Porgy and Bess.
Gershwin was also well-known for his songs, which are among the best Jazz Standards of the era, including Summertime, I Got Rhythm, Fascinating Rhythm, and many, many more.
He is one of a long line of brilliant composers who died long before their time. Shortly before his diagnosis, and subsequent death due to a brain tumour at the age of 38, Gershwin said to his sister Frances:
“I don’t feel I’ve scratched the surface. I don’t think of money any more. I just want to work on American music: symphonies, chamber music, opera. This is what I really want to do. I don’t feel I’ve even scratched the surface.”
for: Violin, trumpet, piano
3 single parts
Item no.: 663080
Strike up the Band
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1547644
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963739
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963646
for: Trumpet
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1053198
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1360407
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359883
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359856
for: Lead Sheet
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for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359637
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1360846
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 842563
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 842554
for: Easy Piano
Item no.: 1364786
for: Easy Piano
Item no.: 1365721
for: Brass Octet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016733
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Book
Item no.: 842118
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963908
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963744
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 216194
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341471
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1083577
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1083972
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1084644
Klassik
for: Keyboard Percussion Duet
Buch
Item no.: 1535283
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215179
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1083824
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 1083095
for: 8 HRN
Score, Parts
Item no.: 630578
Ein Medley von drei Welterfolgen für Männerchor und Klavier (mit deutschen Texten) oder mit Gitarre/ Bassgitarre/ Schlagzeug
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; rhythm group ad lib.
Instrumental parts
Item no.: 685154
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Single edition
Item no.: 1081795
Die Hits bearbeitet für Blechbläserquartett oder Posaunenchor
for: 4 brass instruments [brass ensemble]
Part 3 in B-flat
Item no.: 681668
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359944
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359929
for: Easy Piano
Item no.: 1359918
for: Lead Sheet
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for: Lead Sheet
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for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1359634
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211806
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 586741
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1360215
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1380037
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935947
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963918
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963910
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963645
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963396
for: Marching band
Score
Item no.: 939824
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