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Noun Named Entity
Categories: 1937 deaths, Cancer deaths in California, Broadway composers and lyricists, Jewish American film score composers, Jazz musicians from New York
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Gershwin  George Gershwin  Dzhordzh Gershvin  George gerschwin  George Gershwi
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United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) WordNet 3.0
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United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Wikipedia
American composer and pianist Wikidata
IS A
composer
homo
AFFILIATION
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
AWARD RECEIVED
Pulitzer Prize
Grammy Trustees Award
Congressional Gold Medal
CAUSE OF DEATH
brain cancer
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Obalky knih.cz
ETHNIC GROUP
Russian Jews
GENRE
classical music
jazz
opera
GIVEN NAME
Jacob
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Portrait Gallery
INSTRUMENT
piano
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
NOTABLE WORK
Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy and Bess
An American in Paris
The Man I Love
OCCUPATION
songwriter
composer
conductor
pianist
jazz musician
+2 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Brooklyn
New York
PLACE OF BURIAL
Westchester Hills Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Hollywood
RECORD LABEL
Victor Talking Machine Company
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Gershwin
Frances Gershwin
Arthur Gershwin
STUDENT OF
Rubin Goldmark
Henry Cowell
Charles Hambitzer
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Gershwin, George Gershwin
Wikipedia
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George Gershwin
Wikidata
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George Gershwin
Wikipedia Redirections
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George gerschwin, George Gershwi, George gershwin, George Gerswin, Gerschwin, Gershwin, Gershwin, George, Jacob Gershowitz
Wikidata Alias
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Dzhordzh Gershvin, George Jacob Gershwin, Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, Jacob Gershvin

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