Person

Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. 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, bu…

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Artist details

Type
Person
Area
United States
Born
December 28th, 1896
Died
March 16th, 1985
Labels
Hyperion
London Records
Mercury Records
Channel Classics
Argo
Last updated: February 24th, 2019

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