Editing Rodgers and Hart (section)

{{Short description|American songwriting partnership}}
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[[Image:Rodgers and Hart NYWTS.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Rodgers (left) and Hart in 1936]]
'''Rodgers and Hart''' were an American [[songwriter|songwriting]] partnership between composer [[Richard Rodgers]] (1902&ndash;1979) and the lyricist [[Lorenz Hart]] (1895&ndash;1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943.<ref name=guide>[http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/biographies/rodgers_hart.htm Rodgers and Hart Biography] Guide to Musical Theatre, accessed April 5, 2009</ref>  Many of their songs are classics of the [[Great American Songbook|American songbook]].