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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 6 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
Toy Soldiers on Parade — —— Pianopop 2
In an Indian Village — —— Pianopop 3
A Clown and His Dog — —— Pianopop 3
Riding A Pony in the Park — —— Pianopop 3
An Indian Story — —— Pianopop 3
Money Isn't Ev'rything — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 2
A Real Nice Clambake — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 3
A Very Special Day — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 3
Pal Joey: Vocal Selections — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, VocalJazz, pop 2
Den of Iniquity — —— Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocalpop 2
Sentimental Me — —— Piano, Vocalpop 2
State Fair: Opening — —— VoiceClassical, Pop 3
Two By Two — —— Piano, Voicepop 4
Love Makes The World Go — —— Piano, Voicepop 4
La-La-La — —— Piano, Voicepop 4
04) Have You Met Miss Jones — —— Guitarpop 1
Gitka's Song,The(Rodgers/Charnin — —— Voicepop 3
Hammer Music (Rodgers/Charnin) — —— Voicepop 3
As Far As I'm Concerned(Rodgers/ — —— Voicepop 3
I Still Believe In You — —— Piano, Guitar, Voicepop 2
Happy Hunting Horn — —— Piano, Voicepop 2
Bye and Bye — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
I Blush — —— Piano, VocalJazz, pop 1
The Boys from Syracuse: Vocal Selections — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
From Another World — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Jumbo: Vocal Selections — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
You Always Love the Same Girl — —— Piano, VocalJazz, pop 1
Quiet Night — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Everything I've Got — —— Piano, VocalClassical, Pop 1
The Circus is on Parade — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
The March of Siamese Children — —— —pop 1
I Married An Angel — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Can't You Do A Friend A Favor — —— Piano, VocalJazz, pop 1
Who Are You? — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
On Your Toes — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Diavolo — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
On a Desert Island With Thee! — —— Piano, VocalJazz, pop 1
Oh, Diogenes — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
When You're Dancing the Waltz — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
It's Got To Be Love — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
I've Got Five Dollars — —— Piano, Vocalpop 2
I Feel at Home With You — —— Piano, VocalJazz, pop 1
Take and Take and Take — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
I'd Rather Be Right — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Too Good for the Average Man — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1
Do I Hear a Waltz?: Vocal Selections — —— Piano, Vocalpop 1

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.