PBS
Pbs: Biography of Dizzy Gillespie
This PBS biography about trumpeter and jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie includes photos, multiple audio features, and links within the text to other famous musicians.
Other
The Official Miles Davis Site
Learn about the famous jazz musician Miles Davis. Links to an extensive biography, music, pictures, and more.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Franz Joseph Haydn
A short biography of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. There are numerous links on Haydn at the bottom of the page.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Moldenhauer Archives
The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era.
Other
Richard Wagner and His Operas
A comprehensive site detailing the operas of Richard Wagner. This site includes a biography, audio, video and many other details about Wagner and his operas.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Stephen Foster
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on Stephen Foster, American music composer, who was featured on the one cent postage stamp.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Leonard Bernstein Collection
This site from the Library of Congress provides information on perhaps the most important American musical figure of the 20th century has over 400,000 items housed in the Library of Congress. Photographs, his famous Young People's...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Smithsonian Jazz: Duke Ellington
This site provides audio clips, photos, and biographical information of this legendary composer and performer. A match game teaches and tests your knowledge of Ellington.
Robert H. Sarkissian
Island of Freedom: Guillaume De Machaut
This site contains info on the life of Machaut and some of his famous works. Information is from the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Gershwin Legacy: George and Ira Gershwin
With their famous music and lyrics, the Library of Congress presents an in depth exhibit of primary source materials from the Gershwin brothers.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Stephen Foster
A website that accompanies a film on Stephen Foster. Students can listen to the famous songs, view a timeline of his life, and find information about Foster's contemporaries.
Bill of Rights Institute
Bill of Rights Institute: James Otis
James Otis was called the most important American of the 1760s by John Adams. A trained lawyer and master of argument, James Otis was a leader of the Patriot movement in Boston in those years. Initially a prosecutor for the British...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: Famous Violin Players
Musical geniuses, these virtuoso violinists helped to shape music and you can learn more about them on this site!
Other
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.
Other
Johann Strauss, Jr. 1825 1899
A biography of Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899 CE) with lots of images plus an extensive list of compositions.
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriters Hall of Fame: John Philip Sousa
This resource provides information about John Philip Sousa.
Other
The Mozart Project
This online resource is a complete Mozart research tool. Includes an extensive biography, a family tree, a complete listing of his works by date and by category (many with sound clips), essays, and links to Mozart-related websites.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976 CE), English composer, was the first musician to be granted the title "Lord" from his Queen. Read more about how early he began composing music and how he became famous. Listen to a bit of his work using...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky went to school to study music and law. Once he became famous as a composer, he stopped practicing law. Listen to his music using RealAudio or Windows Media Player and read more about this composer's life and work.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Chris Hazell
Use this resource to find out what this British composer's cat had to do with some of his most famous music. Learn about his life, likes, and works. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear "Borage" from "Three Brass Cats."
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: William Grant Still
This resource describes how William Grant Still (1895-1978 CE) started out playing the violin and then began teaching himself to play other string instruments as well as the oboe, clarinet, and saxophone. His most famous work is...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Leonard Bernstein
Resource about Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990 CE), American musician/composer/conductor. Learn how he became famous just because another conductor was ill. Listen to some of his work using RealAudio or Windows Media Player.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Antonio Vivaldi
Use this resource to find out how Vivaldi's (1678-1741 CE) music reflected his personality. Read about this Baroque composer and his work. Listen to the first movement from his most famous work.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953 CE) wrote his first opera when he was twelve-years-old. One of his most famous works is "Peter and the Wolf." Use this site to read a biography and listen to his music using RealAudio or Windows Media Player.
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