Classics For Kids
Introduce children to classical music in a fun and entertaining way.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven the Pianist
Beethoven was a pianist. During his lifetime, the piano changed ...
Beethoven was a pianist. During his lifetime, the piano changed quite a bit, and those changes were reflected in the music Beethoven composed for the intstrument. William Black, head of the piano department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, talks with Naomi Lewin about how Beethoven's music followed the development of the piano.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: About Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a uniquely talented composer and musician. ...
Ludwig van Beethoven was a uniquely talented composer and musician. But by the time Beethoven was 30, his increasing deafness put an end to his career as a pianist. That did not stop him from continuing to compose some of the most beautiful music the world has ever known. As a composer, Beethoven was a revolutionary. He took the Classical forms he learned from Mozart and Haydn, and pushed them into the next period of musical history -- the Romantic era.
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Gioachino Rossini: Weather in Music
Depicting a thunderstorm in music was one of Rossini's specialties. ...
Depicting a thunderstorm in music was one of Rossini's specialties. Here are some more examples of musical thunderstorms.
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Gioachino Rossini: Overtures
Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at ...
Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at the beginning of a play, opera or ballet in order to set the mood. But there are also other kinds of overtures.
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Gioachino Rossini: The Story of William Tell
The William Tell Overture was written to open an opera ...
The William Tell Overture was written to open an opera by Gioachino Rossini. The opera is based on a legend about the Swiss hero William Tell. According to the legend, William Tell was an expert with a bow and arrow who shot an apple off his son's head. You can hear the political turmoil in William Tell's Switzerland in Rossini's music.
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Gioachino Rossini: About Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was born in 1792 and died ...
Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was born in 1792 and died in 1868, so you might think that he celebrated 76 birthdays. But Rossini was born in a leap year, on February 29th, so he only had 18 official birthdays! Rossini was the most successful opera composer of his day.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Christmas Carols in Classical Music
In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that ...
In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have Christmas carols in them.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Turn of the 20th Century English Composers
Ralph Vaughan Williams arrived on the scene just as a ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams arrived on the scene just as a definite English classical music sound was being established. His three main teachers at the Royal Academy of Music were Arthur Sullivan, Hubert Parry, and Charles Stanford. Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst also had an influence on Vaughan Williams. Other contemporaries of his were George Butterworth, Percy Grainger, and Peter Warlock.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Musical Fantasies
Originally, a musical fantasy was a piece that instrumentalists made ...
Originally, a musical fantasy was a piece that instrumentalists made up as they went along. Eventually, fantasies evolved into pieces that composers built out of various melodies they liked -- like the Scottish folk tunes that Max Bruch put into his Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: About Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important 20th ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the most important 20th century English composers. He spent years traveling the country collecting English folk songs, writing them down, and publishing them. Many of those melodies wound up in his music.
