George Gershwin (1898-1930) left school at 15 to work for one of Tin Pan Alley's major publishing houses, Jerome H. Remick and Company, as a song plugger, published his first song in 1917, recorded piano rolls for the Aeolian Company, dipped into vaudeville and revue, and scored his first hit, "Swanee", in 1919. By the mid-1920s, with a growing list of revue and musical comedy credits and the 1924 premiere of Rhapsody In Blue along with other extended classical compositions he had established himself both as a composer of art music which brought popular forms, including jazz, into the concert hall and as a master of the popular song.