Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Johann Sebastian Bach
Useful biographical information about the famous composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Queen's University (Belfast): Bach Bibliography
A searchable database containing 21,000 reference records to the life and work of composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Provides a comprehensive roundup of publications about the composer/musican of interest to Bach scholars and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Performance Today
This is a clever feature of National Public Radio's website. Each day of the year several events related to classical music that occurred on that date in history are listed.
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Dulcinea Media Inc.: Grandes De La Musica: Pablo Sarasate
This is a short biography of Pablo Sarasate who was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: w.c. Handy
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features W.C. Handy, an African American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then-fashionable ragtime music. Among his best-known works is the...
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona Univ.: Symmetrical Binary Principle
This site from the Northern Arizona University contains the meanings of the symmetrical binary principle in Bach's music and several other composers of this period.
Curated OER
Benjamin Britten
Classical Net offers links, resources, and lists of works on Benjamin Britten (1913-1976 CE), one of Britain's greatest composers.
Curated OER
Johann Christian Bach
This profile of the 11th son of J. S. Bach surveys his life as a successful court musician and composer in Italy and England.
Curated OER
Aaron Copland
A good biography, with a good list of works, make this worthwhile, with links to related composers and at least one work, "Appalachian Spring."
Curated OER
Franz Joseph Haydn
A short biography of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. There are numerous links on Haydn at the bottom of the page.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Amy Beach
Short biography of Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, including information on her life and works.
Teacher Planet
Teacher Planet: Mozart
Several lessons, units, and featured website links for learning about Mozart geared to elementary grades (includes worksheet PDF printouts).
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: Frederick Chopin
This site from the North Park University provides a brief biographical sketch of pianist Frederick Chopin describes briefly the Polish nationalist themes in his compositions.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Muzio Clementi
A classical composer, and acknowledged as the first to write specifically for the piano.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Leonard Bernstein Collection
The online version of the Library of Congress' collection. Content includes more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Students will enjoy this interactive website. There are many musical topics to explore while having fun. Learning how to make your own instrument, playing games and listening to music are just a few of the things you can do here.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Students will enjoy this interactive website. There are many musical topics to explore while having fun. Learning how to make your own instrument, playing games and listening to music are just a few of the things you can do here.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Music and Nationalism
Fordham University provides college-level reading on how the Nationalism of the 19th Century affected the music of the 20th, especially Classical music. These composers lived most of their lives in the 1800's, but are often classified...
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Modest Musorgsky
Olga's Gallery features a portrait of Modest Musorgsky.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time
View this collection of documents and objects to find out about music in Mozart's time and music in the present time 250 years after Mozart.
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Minnesota News Council: Edvard Grieg
Great Norwegians from the Minnesota News Council provides several biographies of Edvard Grieg with links to music clips too. Lots of images as well.
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George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
Part of a program, these notes on Crumb and his composition have some good information, and some good quotes.