Composers Performers

George Gershwin

George Gershwin (1898–1937)

USA · Jazz

As a performer: conductor, composer pianist

2 waltzes for piano in C major (1932)
“A Foggy Day”, song (1937)
“An American in Paris”, tone poem for orchestra (1928)
“Blah, blah, blah”, song (1931)
“Boy! What Has Love Done to Me!”, song (1930)
“But Not for Me”, song (1930)
“By Strauss”, song (1936)
“Catfish Row”, suite from “Porgy and Bess” (1936)
“Clap Yo’ Hands”, song (1926)
Concerto in F for piano and orchestra (1925)
Cuban Overture for orchestra (1932)
“Delishious”, song (1931)
“Do it again”, song (1922)
“Do, Do, Do”, song (1926)
“Drifting Along with the Tide”, song (1921)
“Embraceable You”, song (1928)
“Fascinating Rhythm”, song (1924)
Five excerpts from the opera “Porgy and Bess” (1935)
“From Now On”, song (1927)
“Funny Face”, song (1927)
“George Gershwin’s Song-Book”. Eighteen arrangements for piano (1932)
“Hang on to Me”, song (1924)
“He Loves and She Loves”, song (1927)
“I Can’t Be Bothered Now”, song (1937)
“I Got Rhythm”, song (1930)
“I’d Rather Charleston”, song (1926)
“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise”, song (1922)
“I’ve Got a Crush on You”, song (1928)
“Idle Dreams”, song (1920)
Impromptu in two keys for piano (1929)
“Isn’t It a Pity?”, song (1933)
“Just Snap Your Fingers At Care”, song (1931)
“Kickin’ the Clouds Away”, song (1925)
“Let ’Em Eat Cake”, song (1933)
“Let’s Kiss and Make Up”, song (1927)
“Liza”, song (1929)
“Looking for a Boy”, song (1925)
“Love Is Here to Stay”, song (1937)
“Love Walked In”, song (1937)
“Love Walked In”, song (1937)
“Lullaby” for string quartet (1919)
“Maybe”, song (1926)
“Merry Andrew”, fragment for piano (1928)
“Mexican Dance”, instrumental piece, song (1920)
“My one and only”, song (1927)
“Nice Work If You Can Get It”, song (1937)
“Nobody but you”, song (1919)
“Oh, Lady Be Good!”, song (1924)
“Oh, So Nice!”, song (1928)
“On My Mind the Whole Night Long”, song (1920)
Opera “Blue Monday” (“135th Street”) (1922)
Opera “Porgy and Bess” (1934-35)
Opera “Porgy and Bess” (excerpts) (1935)
Overture to the musical “Girl Crazy”, piano arrangement (1930)
Overture to the musical “Lady, Be Good!”, piano arrangement (1924)
Parts of works
Piece “Ballet” for piano (1924)
Piece “Kangaroo Hop” for piano (1922)
Piece “Three-Quarter Time Blues” for piano (1925)
“Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture” (arr. Robert Russell Bennett) (1942)
Prelude “Novelette in Fourths” for Piano (1919)
“Rhapsody in Blue” for piano and orchestra (1924)
“Rialto Ripples”, rag for piano, song (1916)
“’S Wonderful”, song (1927)
“Scandal Walk”, song (1920)
Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (1930-31)
“Shall We Dance?”, song (1937)
“Short Story” for violin and piano (1925)
“Slap That Bass”, song (1937)
“So Am I”, song (1924)
“Somebody Loves Me”, song (1924)
“Someone to Watch Over Me”, song (1926)
“Soon”, song (1930)
“Strike up the band”, song (1927)
Suite “Girl Crazy” for orchestra (1930)
“Summertime”, aria from “Porgy and Bess” (1935)
“Swanee”, song (1919)
“Sweet and Lowdown”, song (1925)
“That Certain Feeling”, song (1925)
“The Half of It, Dearie Blues”, song (1924)
“The man I love”, song (1924)
“Then Do We Dance?”, piece for piano (1925)
“They All Laughed”, song (1937)
“They Can’t Take That Away from Me”, song (1937)
Three Preludes for piano (1926)
Variations on the theme “I Got Rhythm” for piano and orchestra (1933-34)
“Walking the Dog”, from “Shall We Dance” (1937)
“When You Want ’Em, You Can’t Get ’Em (When You’ve Got ’Em, You Don’t Want ’Em)”, song (1916)
“Who Cares?”, song (1931)
“You’ve Got What Gets Me”, song (1932)