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Full-text articles, images, and abstracts with biographical information. Good for homework help and research.
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Superstar 1779: Mozart offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Superstar 1779: Mozart features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares...
2) Beethoven
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The Famous Children series tells lively and amusing stories from the early years of great composers and artists−bringing these genuises vividly alive for today's young readers. The approachable storytelling style is wonderfully accompanied by colorful and humorous illustrations every child will enjoy.
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Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential composers of all time, is brought vividly to life and made relevant to today's young musicians in Beethoven for Kids. Children will learn about Beethoven's troubled childhood and family life, early gift and passion for music, volatile personality, championing of equality and freedom, and persistence in his work despite increasing hearing loss. The great musicians, thinkers, and movements of Beethoven's...
4) Mozart
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Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the versatile eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
6) Haydn
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Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn.
9) What music: the fifty-year friendship between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, who built his pianos
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"This picture book biography chronicles the lifelong friendship that began in adolescence between Ludwig van Beethoven and master piano maker Nannette Streicher emphasizing her support for him and his work and his influence on the many innovations she made to piano construction"--
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This comprehensive biography of one of history s greatest composers will bring Beethoven back to life for contemporary young readers. In addition to a biographical treatment of his life, a thorough assessment is made of Beethoven s musical stylings and developments all in language suitable for upper-elementary-level readers. Eighteenth-century drawings coupled with modern photographs show readers Beethoven s world as it was during his lifetime and...
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"Introduces readers to the life and legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text give early readers an engaging and age-appropriate look at his music and its impact. Features include sidebars, a table of contents, two infographics, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning."--provided by publisher.
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With stunning and expressive illustrations, Diane Stanley portrays Mozart's turbulent life as a marionette show, inspired by the famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre, using an innovative artistic approach to present the life of a renowned musical genius. In concise and lyrical prose, Stanley presents an honest and sympathetic portrait of the boyhood and tragically short adulthood of a composer whose music has lived on for more than two hundred years....
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