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George Gershwin was born into a Russian, Jewish immigrant family on September 26th, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York.
乔治·格什温于1898年9月26日出生于纽约布鲁克林的一个俄罗斯犹太移民家庭，
Despite having a perfunctory musical education, and never really becoming very good at reading music,
尽管只接受过浅薄的音乐教育，也从未真正擅长解读音乐，
Gershwin was the first composer to successfully fuse the musical style of American jazz with those of the European symphonic tradition.
但格什温却是第一位成功将美国爵士乐与欧洲传统交响乐融合在一起的作曲家。
At the age of 16, he quit school to become a music publisher agent and was soon writing his own music, along with his brother Ira, a lyricist.
16岁时他辍学成为一名音乐出版商代理，之后很快就和其作词家哥哥艾拉一起创作了自己的音乐。
The two would remain in musical partnership for the duration of Gershwin's relatively short career.
在格什温相对较短的职业生涯中，他和哥哥一直保持着音乐合作关系。
An accomplished jazz pianist, some of Gershwin's most notable songs are "The Man I Love", "Lady Be Good", and "Embraceable You".
作为一位颇有造诣的爵士钢琴家，格什温最著名的歌曲有《爱人》、《小姐，对我好点吧》和《有你相拥》。
Billed as "An Experiment In Modern Music", the 14-minute work for piano and orchestra titled, "Rhapsody In Blue" wowed its audience at its premiere in 1924.
其名为《蓝色狂想曲》的14分钟钢琴曲被宣传为“现代音乐实验”，在1924年的首演中赢得了观众的喝彩。
The title of this piece was suggested by Gershwin's brother Ira after a painting by Whistler.
这首曲子的名字是由格什温的哥哥艾拉在参观了惠斯勒的一幅画之后提出的。
The success of "Rhapsody In Blue" lead to Gershwin being commissioned for a number of other works,
《蓝色狂想曲》的成功使得格什温接到了许多创作其他作品的委托，
including the popular opera "Porgy And Bess", which is, to this day, the only American opera regularly performed internationally.
其中包括流行歌剧《波吉与贝丝》，这是唯一一部至今仍在国际上进行常规演出的美国歌剧。
George Gershwin suffered an untimely death on July 11th, 1938, from a brain tumor in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 39.
1938年7月11日，乔治·格什温在加州贝弗利山庄因脑瘤不幸早逝，年仅39岁。
