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An edition of Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought) (1993)

Lives of the musicians

good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)

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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

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language
English
Pages
96

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Subjects
Musicians, Biography, Juvenile literature, Anthologie, Komponist, Caricatures and cartoons, Anekdote, Musicians, juvenile literature, Musicians, biography, New York Times reviewed, Texas Bluebonnet Nominee 1994-1995, Accelerated reader

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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780/.92/2, B
Library of Congress
ML385 .K89 1993

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Pagination
96 p. :
Number of pages
96

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Open Library
OL24769163M
ISBN 10
0152480102
ISBN 13
9780152480103
LCCN
91033497
OCLC/WorldCat
24703153

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