What American composer wrote both "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris"
Gershwin (disambiguation) George Gershwin (1898–1937), American composer, author of famous works such as "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris"
American Five The American Five is a collective name applied by some writers to the modernist American composers Charles Ives (1874–1954), John J. Becker (1886–1961), Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961), Henry Cowell (1897–1965), and Carl Ruggles (1876–1971). They were noted for their modernist and often dissonant compositions which broke away from European compositional styles to create a distinctly American style. The name was coined in imitation of the group of Russian composers called The Five.