Resource Summary

0152164367

Lives of the Musicians by Kathleen Krull (Author)

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Readers who thrive on offbeat information will be delighted by the splendid array of fun facts lurking in these informative and accurate snapshot biographies.
Details
  • Resource Type: Book
  • ISBN: 0152164367
  • Print Status: In Print
  • Chapters: 19
  • Pages: 96
  • Suggested Grades: 1st - 6th
  • Subjects: Music
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Copyright: 2002
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This book is quite entertaining and makes the composers come to life. However, I would read it with discretion, expecially to younger students. For example, the book talks quite frankly about Tchaikovsky's homosexuality.

Chapter Details
  • 1 — Antonio Vivaldi
  • 2 — Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 3 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 4 — Ludwig Van Beethoven
  • 5 — Frederic Chopin
  • 6 — Giuseppe Verdi
  • 7 — Clara Schumann
  • 8 — Stephen Foster
  • 9 — Johannes Brahms
  • 10 — Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
  • 11 — William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
  • 12 — Erik Satie
  • 13 — Scott Joplin
  • 14 — Charles Ives
  • 15 — Igor Stravinsky
  • 16 — Nadia Boulanger
  • 17 — Sergei Prokofiev
  • 18 — George Gershwin
  • 19 — Woody Guthrie