Roger Sessions
Roger Sessions (1896-1985) was an American composer and teacher, born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Princeton, New Jersey. He studied with Horatio Parker at Yale and then with Ernest Bloch, and spent most of his career teaching composition, above all at Princeton University. He received a special Pulitzer citation in 1974 for his life's work as a composer, and the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Concerto for Orchestra.
