Famous Composers for Young People (Famous Biographies for Young People)

This book, for young people of eight to fifteen, is a collection of short biographies covering the lives of twenty of the world's great composers. Each biography places the composer both in time and kind of music from the point of view of the young reder. Accompanying each is a full-page reproduction of an authentic, contemporary picture of the composer. There is no other book which combines the educational value of this material with an attractive presentation. Other books are episodic and do not give chronological details in biographical form as does this series of brief, interesting lives. Palestirina, Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Foster, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, MacDowell, and Debussy.