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What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein (Frances Foster/FSG, 2002)
A composer of innovative music, Charles Ives realized his dream at 77 years of age! What an inspiration. This is one of my all-time favorite picture book biographies.
Visit the Charles Ives Society web site for background information, works, and useful links.
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993)
An opera composer from Italy, Verdi was playing the organ for his village by the age of ten. Aida and La Traviata are two of his most famous works.
A Stanford University web site offers information about Verdi’s operas.
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993)
Gershwin wrote Broadway show tunes galore. Thanks, George (and your brother, Ira, too,) for Rhapsody in Blue, Swanee, I Got Rhythm and more.
Visit the Official Web site of George and Ira Gershwin.
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993)
A composer and teacher, Boulanger’s nickname was “Tender Tyrant.” Among her famous pupils were Aaron Copland and Philip Glass.
Visit the Nadia Boulanger web site for more information about this influential woman.
Mozart Tonight by Julie Downing (Aladdin, paper, 1994)
Told in first person, Mozart’s life is center stage in this story of his struggles and creativity.
The Mozart Project offers a biography, compositions, selected essays, bibliography and links to all things Mozart.
