George Gershwin
Jacob Gershowitz
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Emerging from a Brooklyn household of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he studied piano with Charles Hambitzer and composition under Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. After early work as a song plugger, he teamed with his brother Ira and Buddy DeSylva to create Broadway hits, then ventured to Paris where, despite being turned away by Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Ravel, he produced the tone-…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources