George Gershwin

Sound

Born: 1898-09-26

Died: 1937-07-11

From: New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.1

Also Known As

Jacob GershowitzJacob GershwineД. Гершвин

Biography

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime".

Awards & Nominations4 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

1998

🏆 Won

Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

1998

🏆 Won

Grammy Trustees Award

1986

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Original Song

They Can't Take That Away from Me

1938

🏆 Won

Congressional Gold Medal

George Gershwin

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations4 won · 1 nominated

Acting4 titles

The Golden Twenties

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Dance Crazy in Hollywood

Gershwin: The American Classic

Writing2 titles

An American in Paris: The Musical

Crazy for You

Sound41 titles

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

The Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess

Putting on the Ritz

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Starstruck: Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet

Summertime

An American in Paris: The Musical

Shall We Dance

Porgy and Bess

Contact

Funny Face

Kiss Me, Stupid

Fantasia 2000

An American in Paris

The Barkleys of Broadway

Rhapsody in Blue

Strike Up the Band

Delicious

A Damsel in Distress

Porgy and Bess

Ziegfeld Follies

The Song of the Flame

Girl Crazy

Lady Be Good

The Goldwyn Follies

Girl Crazy

Nick Crumbs and the Mystery of the Missing Cake

Maestro

George Gershwin Alone

Magic Trap

Badineries

The Chicken Hunter

Paris in the Springtime

Fazil Say @ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music

New Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève

New Year's Eve Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2025

Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” with Yuja Wang With the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Concerto Bernstein-Gershwin

Ritorno alla musica

OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna

Crew6 titles

The Director's Cut

King of Jazz

Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris

Martynas Levickis Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Kissin performs Gershwin, Berg and Chopin Salzburg Festival 2021

Gershwin in New York - La Folle Journée de Nantes 2025