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American composer and pianist George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. He first displayed interest in music at the age of ten, when he was intrigued by what he heard at his friend Maxie Rosenzweig's violin recital. The sound and the way his friend played captured him. His parents had bought a piano for lessons for his older brother Ira, but to his parents' surprise and Ira's relief, it was George who played it. He tried various piano teachers for two years, and then was introduced to Charles Hambitzer by Jack Miller, the pianist in the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. At the age of fifteen, George quit the school and found his first job as a performer as a "song plugger" for Jerome H. Remick and Company, a publishing firm on New York City's Tin Pan Alley, where he earned $15 a week. And now, you may download George Gershwin's compilation album, Gershwin Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls, in mp3 from our site.
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