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Oscar Hammerstein II. Prolific US-American songwriter who teamed up with different composers from 1923 to 1943; from 1943 until his death in 1960 he formed a duo with Richard Rodgers. Hammerstein was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Born July 12, 1895 in New York, NY; died August 23, 1960 in Doylestown, PA.
Hammerstein also served as a mentor to Alan Jay Lerner, and to Steven Sondheim, who met Hammerstein when he was still very young. Sondheim credits his success with the lyrics to West Side Story to Hammerstein's influence and guidance. Oscar Hammerstein II died of stomach cancer on August 23, 1960, at his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Category:Hammerstein II, Oscar. Works are generally in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) if the creator died in 1971 or earlier. Works by this person are not in the public domain in countries with a life+70 copyright term (including all EU countries), unless an exception applies. In the United States, all works first published ...
Oscar Hammerstein II nació en la ciudad de Nueva York el 12 de julio de 1895 en una familia que trabajaba en teatro. Su padre, William, dirigía un teatro de vodevil, mientras que su abuelo, Oscar Hammerstein I, era un famoso empresario de ópera. El tío de Hammerstein, Arthur, fue un exitoso productor de musicales de Broadway.
Biography: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father managed the Victoria Theatre and was a producer of vaudeville shows. He attended Columbia University and studied at Columbia Law School. He quit law school for the theatre, and collaborated with various composers including Otto Harbach ...
6 de ene. de 2015 · Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born in New York City, the son of Alice (née Nimmo) and William Hammerstein. His grandfather was German-born theatre impresario Oscar I Hammerstein (1846-1919). His father was from a Jewish family, and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents.
Oscar Hammerstein II is, I believe, the most consequential figure in the history of the American musical. His career spanned from 1920 to 1960, and in those forty years he so transformed our understanding of what musicals could be that any post-Hammerstein musical owes him a direct debt. Having spent the last two-and-a-half years working with ...