[DOC] [TLE] George Gershwin | American composer | Britannica.com [PAR] One of the most significant and popular American composers of all time. He wrote 
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perhaps the most-performed and most-recorded orchestral composition of the 
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1935. [DOC] [TLE] Opera - Wikipedia [PAR] Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work 
combining text .... It was written around 1597, largely under the inspiration of an 
elite circle of ... Farinelli was one of the most famous singers of the 18th century. 
..... many elements of Italian opera, he was perhaps the only English composer at 
that... [DOC] [TLE] American popular music - Wikipedia [PAR] American popular music has had a profound effect on music across the world. 
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Gutmann. ... of being both the most acclaimed and vilified of all American operas. 
... has yet been provided from native and local materials by an American 
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authoritative ... career, George Gershwin composed a long list of popular songs, 
many written for ... the most significant American opera, Porgy and Bess (with 
lyrics co-written by Ira ... Perhaps more than any other American composer, 
George Gershwin... [DOC] [TLE] Porgy and Bess: A Racial Paradox - DigitalCommons@Cedarville [PAR] community in mind when he wrote Porgy and Bess. Since Porgy and Bess ... 
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because it's not the composer's most-loved or best-known work, such ... Of the 
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brother, the lyricist Ira Gershwin, modeled his opera Street Scene on Porgy and 
Bess. ... downward chromatically, making the melodic notes sound ever more 
intense. Alec Wilder, in his classic study American Popular Song, was perhaps 
the first... [DOC] [TLE] Misunderstanding Gershwin - The Atlantic [PAR] The composer mixed popular and classical idioms like no one before or since, ... 
in F, the three Preludes for Piano, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess -- 
and ... Second Rhapsody and the early, crude operatic attempt Blue Monday 
Blues. .... Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of Duterte's staunch anti-
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During his all-too-brief lifetime, he wrote a continual series of pop hits and ... 
Concerto in F. He was also a top composer of Broadway musicals,... [DOC] [TLE] GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess (Original Cast Recordings) (1935-1942) [PAR] It has more faults than any work I have ever known by a reputable composer

Question: This composer's "Porgy And Bess" is perhaps the most popular opera ever written by an American
Answer: George Gershwin