Sessions, Roger (Huntington)

(born Dec. 28, 1896, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died March 16, 1985, Princeton, N.J.) U.S. composer. He attended Harvard and Yale, lived in Italy and Germany (1925–33), and later taught principally at Princeton University (1935–45, 1953–65). His early interest in Neoclassicism was replaced c. 1953 by his adoption of serialism. His works include the operas (1947) and (1963), incidental music to (1923), eight symphonies, a (1982, Pulitzer Prize), and the cantata (1970), as well as several widely read books on music.

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