After dropping out of school at age 15, Gershwin earned an income by making piano rolls for player pianos and by playing in New York nightclubs. Gershwin continued to broaden his musical knowledge and compositional technique throughout his career with such disparate mentors as the idiosyncratic American composers Henry Cowell and Wallingford Riegger, the distinguished traditionalist Edward Kilenyi, and Joseph Schillinger, a musical theorist known for his mathematically grounded approach to composition. Hambitzer was so impressed with Gershwin’s potential that he refused payment for the lessons as he wrote in a letter to his sister, “I have a new pupil who will make his mark if anybody will. He studied piano with the noted instructor Charles Hambitzer, who introduced his young student to the works of the great classical composers. When George surprised everyone with his fluid playing of a popular song, which he had taught himself by following the keys on a neighbor’s player piano, his parents decided that George would be the family member to receive lessons. He began his musical education at age 11, when his family bought a second-hand upright piano, ostensibly so that George’s older sibling, Ira, could learn the instrument. Although his family and friends were not musically inclined, Gershwin developed an early interest in music through his exposure to the popular and classical compositions he heard at school and in penny arcades. Gershwin was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, but important as well are his orchestral and piano compositions in which he blended, in varying degrees, the techniques and forms of classical music with the stylistic nuances and techniques of popular music and jazz. George Gershwin, original name Jacob Gershvin, (born September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.-died July 11, 1937, Hollywood, California), one of the most significant and popular American composers of all time.
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