Contents • • • • • • Life [ ] Sessions was born in, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of, a signatory of the. Roger studied music at from the age of 14. There he wrote for and subsequently edited the Harvard Musical Review. Graduating at age 18, he went on to study at under and before teaching. With the exception, mostly, of his to the play The Black Maskers, composed in part in Cleveland in 1923, his first major compositions came while he was traveling Europe with his wife in his mid-twenties and early thirties.

Returning to the United States in 1933, he taught first at (from 1936), moved to the, Berkeley, where he taught from 1945 to 1953, and then returned to Princeton until retiring in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the in 1961.

He was appointed Bloch Professor at Berkeley (1966–67), and gave the at in 1968–69. He continued to teach on a part-time basis at the from 1966 until 1983. For a list of his notable students, See:. In 1968 Sessions was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the. Sessions won a in 1974 citing 'his life's work as a distinguished American composer.'

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In 1982 he won the annual for his, first performed by the on October 23, 1981. He died at the age of 88 in. Style [ ] His works written up to 1930 or so are more or less in style. Those written between 1930 and 1940 are more or less but harmonically complex. The works from 1946 on are atonal, and beginning with the Solo Violin Sonata of 1953, —though not consistently employing Viennese.

Only the first movement and the trio of the scherzo of the Violin Sonata, for example, employ a twelve-tone row strictly, the rest employing a scalar-constructed dissonant style. Sessions's usual method was to use a row to control the full chromaticism and motivic-intervallic cohesion that already marks his music from before 1953. He treats his rows with great freedom, however, typically using pairs of unordered complementary hexachords to provide “harmonic” aspects without determining note-by-note melodic succession, or conversely using the row to supply melodic thematic material while freely composing the subsidiary parts. Major works [ ] • 3 Chorale Preludes for Organ (1924–26) • (1927) • The Black Maskers Orchestral Suite (1928) • Piano Sonata No.

1 (1930) • (1935) • String Quartet No. 1 (1936) • Duo for Violin and Piano (1942) • From My Diary (Pages from a Diary) (1940) • (1946) • (1946) • The Trial of Lucullus (1947), one-act opera • String Quartet No.

2 (1951) • Sonata for Solo Violin (1953) • Idyll of Theocritus (1954) • Mass, for unison chorus and organ (1956) • Piano Concerto (1956) • (1957) • String Quintet (1957 or 1957–58 ) • (1958) • Divertimento for orchestra (1959) • (ca. 1940–1962, 1940s–1962, orchestration finished 1963, 1935–63, or 1941–64 ), opera in three acts (libretto by ) • (1964) • Piano Sonata No. 3 (1965) • (1966) • Six Pieces for Violoncello (1966) • (1967) • (1968) • Rhapsody for Orchestra (1970) • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1970–1971) • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1971) • Three Choruses on Biblical Texts (1971) • Concertino for Chamber Orchestra (1972) • Five Pieces for Piano (1975) • (October 1978) • (1981) • Duo for Violin and Violoncello (1981), incomplete Some works received their first professional performance many years after completion. The Sixth Symphony (1966) was given its first complete performance on March 4, 1977 by the Juilliard Orchestra in New York City. The Ninth Symphony (1978), commissioned by the and Frederik Prausnitz, was premiered on January 17, 1980 by the same orchestra conducted. Writings [ ] • Sessions, Roger.

Harmonic Practice. New York: Harcourt, Brace. LCCN 51008476. • Sessions, Roger.

Reflections on the Music Life in the United States. New York: Merlin Press. LCCN 56012976.

• Sessions, Roger. The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1950, republished 1958.

• Sessions, Roger. Questions About Music.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press Office 2003 Professional Ita Iso File. . 1970, reprinted New York: Norton, 1971.. • Sessions, Roger.

Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays, edited by Edward T. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. (cloth) (pbk) References [ ]. • Olmstead 2008, 7.

• Prausnitz 2002, 70–72, 296–98/ • (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 20, 2011. • ^ Olmstead 2001.

The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 3, 2013. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 3, 2013. • Olmstead 2008, 218, 291.

• Morgan 1991, 294–95. • Prausnitz 2002, 323. • Davis 1982, 89 • Laufer 1965, 95. • Henahan 1982.

• Olmstead 1980, 79. 'News Section'. Tempo, new series, no.

121 (June 1977): 47–50. (subscription required) • Cone, Edward, ed. Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. • Davis, Peter G.

'Montezuma's Revenge'. New York Magazine (March 8, 1982): 89–90.

• Henahan, Donal. '] Gives Sessions 'Montezuma' New York Times (February 21, 1982) (accessed November 30, 2011). 'The Symphonies of Roger Sessions'. Cambridge University Press. (103): 24–32...

• Laufer, Edward C. 'Roger Sessions: Montezuma'. Perspectives of New Music 4, no. 1 (Autumn–Winter, 1965): 95–108. • Morgan, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music. Norton & Co., 1991.

• Olmstead, Andrea. 'Roger Sessions's 9th Symphony'. Tempo, new series, nos. 133/134 (September 1980): 79–81.. (subscription required).

• Olmstead, Andrea. Conversations with Roger Sessions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.. • Olmstead, Andrea. The Correspondence of Roger Sessions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992..

• Olmstead, Andrea. Roger Sessions: A Biography. New York: Routledge, 2008. (hardback) (pbk.) (ebook) • Olmstead, Andrea. 'Sessions, Roger (Huntington)'. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by and. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.

Roger Sessions: How a 'Difficult' Composer Got That Way. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. External links [ ] • at • • • contains a discography • Music Division, The New York Public Library. Olmstead's papers include correspondence with Sessions, transcripts of interviews with Sessions, and other records of Olmstead's Sessions research. • Shifrin's papers include two MSS by Roger Sessions • at Authorities, with 161 catalog records.