Roger Sessions
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American composer, critic, and teacher of music
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Roger Sessions's Degrees
- Bachelors Composition Princeton University
- Masters Composition Princeton University
Why Is Roger Sessions Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. He had 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. Sessions' friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced this, but he would modify the technique to develop a unique style involving rowss to supply melodic thematic material, while composing the subsidiary parts in a free and dissonant manner.
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