Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Lives of the musicians :

Krull, Kathleen.

Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / - San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993. - 96 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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": Fr�ed�eric 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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Musicians--Biography.

ML385 / .K89 1993

780/.92/2 B