Who is Richard Rodgers?
Richard Rodgers was an American composer who worked primarily on Broadway musicals. He was born in New York in 1902, and died in 1979 at the age of 77. Over the course of his life he won virtually every award in his sphere, earning a Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy, a Tony Award, an Oscar, and a Grammy. He is one of only two people in history to have won all five of these prestigious awards. Richard Rodgers was born to a wealthy family in New York City, and from an early age was immersed in music. He began playing the piano at the age of six, and his family took him to the opera throughout his early childhood, fostering in him an appreciation for the theatre and music’s role in it. Richard Rodgers attended Columbia College, and eventually changed his focus to music, and studied at the Institute of Musical Art, which would come be known as Juilliard. In 1919, Richard Rodgers teamed up with Lorenz Hart, and together they began writing musical comedies. Their first pieces, Poor Little Ritz Girl i
