One-page composer bios : 50 reproducible biographies of famous composers / Jay Althouse.
| Author/creator | Althouse, Jay |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Van Nuys, Calif. : Alfred Music Publishing, ©2009. |
| Description | 63 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Composer bios |
| Contents | Johann Sebastian Bach -- Bela Bartok -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Hector Berlioz -- Leonard Bernstein -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Anton Bruckner -- Frederic Chopin -- Aaron Copland -- Claude Debussy -- Antonin Dvorak -- Edward Elgar -- Duke Ellington -- Cesar Franck -- George Gershwin -- Christoph Gluck -- Edvard Grieg -- George Frideric Handel -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Fannie Mendelssohn Hensel -- Hildegard von Bingen -- Charles Ives -- Scott Joplin -- Franz Liszt -- Gustav Mahler -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Mussorgsky -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Giacomo Puccini -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Maurice Ravel -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Clara Schumann -- Robert Schumann -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- John Philip Sousa -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- The Medieval era -- The Renaissance era -- The Baroque era -- The Classical era -- The Romantic -- The Twentieth century. |
| Abstract | This book is a fully reproducible book containing brief, informative, and interesting one-page biographies of fifty of history's greatest composers. Each biography focuses on the personal as well as the musical events in the composer's life, making each composer more human. Use these easy-to-read bios as a complete course in composers or music history or use them as supplemental material in the music classroom. |
| ISBN | 9780739061664 |
| ISBN | 0739061666 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML390.A44 O5 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |