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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
0
Died
0
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 8 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
Soliloquy — —— —— 0
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair — —— —— —
Dites-Moi (Tell Me Why) — —— —— —
My Funny Valentine I and II [Arranged by Miles Davis, Text by Lorenz Hart] — —— —— 1
Blue Moon [Arranged by Freddie Hubbard, Text by Lorenz Hart] — —— —— 1
The Sound of Music (reprise) (complete track) — —— —— 0
The Sound of Music (reprise) (accompaniment track) — —— —— 0
Overture — —— —— 0
A Last Weekmericans — —— —pop —
This Week, Americans — —— Voicepop 1
Last Week, Americans — —— Voicepop 1
Opening Me And Juliet — —— —— —
Dance Fugue — —— Voicepop —
Will You Marry Me — —— Voicepop —
Serenade — —— Voicepop —
Song Of The High Seas — —— —pop 1
The Hymn Of Victory — —— —pop —
Little Lost Lamb — —— Pianopop —
Pussy's in the Well — —— Pianopop —
Waltz of the Dolls — —— Pianopop —
Whirling Pinwheels — —— Pianopop —
A Story of the Wooden Doll — —— Pianopop —
There Are Hollyhocks in My Garden — —— Pianopop —
When Stars Are Bright — —— Pianopop —
A March with the Scouts — —— Pianopop —
Scampering Squirrels — —— Pianopop —
Tiptoeing Through the Daisies — —— Pianopop —
Engine Wheels — —— Pianopop —
The Flight of the Swallow — —— Pianopop —
Two Little Scale Studies — —— Pianopop —
A Little Tango — —— Pianopop —
TOM, THE PIPER'S SON — —— Pianopop —
Fluffy Kittens — —— Pianopop —
Barcarolle — —— Pianopop —
Pop, Pop, Pop, Goes the Popcorn! — —— Pianopop —
In an Indian Tepee — —— Pianopop —
Little Princess Waltz — —— Pianopop —
A Stubborn Donkey — —— Pianopop —
Little Fawn in the Woods — —— Pianopop —
In A Fairy Dell — —— Pianopop —
Little Drum Majorette — —— Pianopop —
Monkey On A String — —— Pianopop —
At the Horse Show — —— Pianopop —
GRASSHOPPERS HOP, THE — —— Pianopop —
FLAG MARCH, THE — —— Pianopop —
Feeding Kitty — —— Pianopop —
Raking Leaves Under the Trees — —— Pianopop —
Making A Snow Man — —— Pianopop —

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.