Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull Author
(From Amazon): Here are the life stories of such diverse figures as Vivaldi, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Nadia Boulanger, and Woody Guthrie. Readers will learn of both their musical natures and the personal, humorous characteristics that make their lives so fascinating. “Living, breathing anecdotes--the stuff of which the best biography is made.”--Publishers Weekly
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0-15-248010
- Print Status
- In Print
- Musicians Stories
- 20
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Harcourt Children's Books
- Copyright
- 1993
Musicians Stories
- 1 The Red Priest : Antonio Vivaldi P.10
- 2 Twenty Children and 1,200 Compositions : Johann Sebastian Bach p.14
- 3 No Ordinary Baby : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart p.18
- 4 Moodiness and Moonlight : Ludwig Van Beethoven p.24
- 5 My Dear Corpse : Frederic Chopin P. 30
- 6 A Successful Farmer and Opera-Composer ; Giuseppe Verdi p.36
- 7 A Different White Dress Every Night : Clara Schumann p.40
- 8 Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts : Stephen Foster p.44
- 9 The Checked Cotton Underwear of Johannes Brahms p.48
- 10 Pulsing and Qivering : Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky p.54
- 11 Topsy-Turvydom : William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan p.58
- 12 Velvet Gentlemen : Erik Satie p.62
- 13 The Entertainer : Scott Joplin p. 66
- 14 He Stretched our Ears : Charles Ives p.70
- 15 Standing on His Head : Icor Stravinsky p. 74
- 16 Tender Tyrant : Madia Boulanger p.78
- 17 Full of Splinters : Sergei Prokofiev p.82
- 18 Great Isn't He? : Gearge Gershwin p.86
- 19 Traveling Troubadour : Woody Guthrie p.90
- 20 Musical Terms p.94
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