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

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

Krull, Kathleen (Author). Hewitt, Kathryn (Added Author).

Summary:

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

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780152480103
  • ISBN: 0152480102
  • Physical Description: 96 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993.
  • Badges:
    • Most Copies: 2 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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