Richard rodgers lorenz hart biography

American songwriting partnership

Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (&#;) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (&#;). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than songs from until Hart's death in ^[1]

History

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were introduced in while Rodgers was in high school and Hart had already graduated from Columbia University.^[2] One of their first collaborations was at Columbia in the Varsity Show, Fly With Me, which also involved Rodgers' future collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II.^[3] After writing together for several years they produced their first successful Broadway musical, The Garrick Gaieties, in , which introduced their hit song "Manhattan" and led to a series of successful musicals and films.^[1] They quickly became among the most popular songwriters in America, and from to had fifteen scores featured on Broadway.

In the earl