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Portrait of Richard Rodgers

Composer

Richard Rodgers

American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)

516 works in the index

Born
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Died
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Birthplace
Queens
Citizenship / historical state
United States
Period (estimated from birth year)
Modern

Biography

Richard Rodgers, the musical half of the two most successful words-and-music collaborations in Broadway history, was appropriately a child of New York City, born there not long after the start of the 20th century. He spent the 1920s and 1930s composing music for the lyrics of Lorenz Hart. The musicals they wrote together included Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), Babes in Arms (1937) and Pal Joey (1940). Pal Joey is perhaps the best-remembered of these today. It was turned into a movie in 1957, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak. Sings included “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” “Bewitched,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” and “There’s a Small Hotel.” After personal differences drove Rodgers and Hart apart, Rodgers teamed up instead with Oscar Hammerstein, and worked with him on another string of hits, redefining Broadway, until Hammerstein’s death in 1960. Rodgers died in late 1979. The obituary in The New York Times said that his name had come to represent “the evolution of American musical comedy into an art form of stature.”

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Piano, Voice, Vocal, Guitar, bass
Genres represented
pop, Jazz, Classical, Pop, Broadway
Works with composition dates
0 of 516

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works page 3 of 11

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Victory At Sea — —— Pianopop 11
A Lovely Night — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 10
Dites-moi — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, VocalClassical, Pop, Children, Broadway 10
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, VocalClassical, Pop, Broadway 10
Away From You — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 9
You're Nearer — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Low VoiceJazz, pop 10
As Once I Loved You — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 8
No Way to Stop It (complete track) — —— —pop 7
Rudder Change (Rodgers/Charnin) — —— Voicepop 8
When I Marry Mr. Snow — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, VocalClassical, Pop, Broadway 7
I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You — —— Piano, Guitar, Voicepop 9
Someone Like You — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 9
The Chase — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 7
In Time — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 7
No Song More Pleasing — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 7
You Are Never Away — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Low Voicepop 9
Thinkin' — —— Voicepop 8
At Dancing School — —— Pianopop 8
Impossible — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 8
Finale — —— Piano, Vocal, Keyboard— 4
Preludium — —— A Cappellapop 6
Nobody's Heart — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Low Voicepop 7
The Pears Of Anjou — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 6
Te Deum — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 6
So Much You Loved Me — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 6
At The Field Of Cloth Of Gold — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 5
Why Me? (Why Me, Lord?) — —— Voicepop 8
Sea Corals — —— Pianopop 6
Sparking Tambourines — —— Pianopop 6
At A Puppet Show — —— Pianopop 7
Singing A Pretty Song — —— Pianopop 5
Loneliness Of Evening — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 7
Come Home — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 6
When The Children Are Asleep — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 5
Twin Soliloquies — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 6
There's Music In You — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 6
Over And Over Again — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 5
Time — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 6
Moon In My Window — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 7
Stay — —— Piano, Voice, Vocalpop 7
Do It The Hard Way — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Trumpetpop 6
Peach Tree (Rodgers/Charnin) — —— Voicepop 7
Party That We're Gonna — —— Voicepop 6
Lambs On the Hill Side — —— Pianopop 6
On the Merry-Go-Round — —— Pianopop 6
Jumping Mud Puddles — —— Pianopop 6
My Birthday Party — —— Pianopop 6
Happy Christmas Holidays — —— Pianopop 6

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 113475079. Portrait: Rodgers_and_Hammerstein_and_Berlin_and_Tamiris_NYWTS.jpg : Al Aumuller, World Telegram staff photographer derivative work: — The Man in Question (gesprec) · (forðung), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.