Getting to know the world's greatest composers

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c1994

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

2) Duke Ellington

Author

Venezia, Mike

3) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

A biography of the child prodigy who wrote more than 800 pieces of music before his untimely death at thirty-five

4) Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c1996

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems

5) The Beatles

Author

Venezia, Mike

6) Johann Sebastian Bach

Author

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c1998

Physical Desc

30 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

A brief biography of the prolific eighteenth-century composer and organist who created some of the world's greatest instrumental and religious music

7) Frédéric Chopin

Author

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c1999

Physical Desc

32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

Describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented beautiful music for the piano and new ways of playing it

8) Johannes Brahms

Author

Venezia, Mike

9) Leonard Bernstein

Author

Venezia, Mike

10) Aaron Copland

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

11) George Handel

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

12) John Philip Sousa

Author

Venezia, Mike

13) Peter Tchaikovsky

Author

Series