ROGER SESSIONS 1896 - 1985

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music. His works written up to 1930 or so are more or less neoclassical in style. Those written between 1930 and 1940 are more or less tonal but harmonically complex. The works from 1946 on are atonal, and beginning with the Solo Violin Sonata of 1953, serial.
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