Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions
Portrait of Sessions by Harold Weston (c. 1920s)
Born	(1896-12-28)December 28, 1896 New York, New York, U.S.
Died	March 6, 1985(1985-03-06) (aged 88) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	Harvard University, Yale University
Occupations	Composer teacher music critic
Spouses	Barbara Foster (1899–1980) ​ ​ (m. 1920; div. 1936)​ Sarah Elizabeth Frank ​ ​ (m. 1936)​
Children	2

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions's friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced him, but he modified his technique to a unique style involving rows to supply melodic themes, while composing subsidiary parts freely.