Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)

Book 1993

The lives of twenty composers and musicians, ranging from Vivaldi, Mozart and Bach to Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Woody Guthrie, are profiled in this eclectic, humorous, and informative collection.

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ISBN:

9780152480103
0152480102

Description:

96 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi
Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach
No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven
"My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin
A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi
A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann
Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster
The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms
Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie
The entertainer: Scott Joplin
He stretched our ears: Charles Ives
Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky
Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger
Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev
"Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin
Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie

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45483

Other Authors:

Hewitt, Kathryn

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