HI MUSIC STUDENTS AND FRIENDS!
Each month we celebrate
a different Composer's Birthday.
The following is a list of which Composer
we celebrate for each month of the school year.
We will be doing special listening activities and learning about
the lives of each Composer as the months progress.
* Please visit www.classicsforkids.com for great games,
activities, and music to listen to by each month's composer.
SEPTEMBER
Woody Guthrie - July, 14, 1912
American Composer of
This Land Is Your Land
OCTOBER
Camille Saint-Saens - October 9, 1835
French Composer of
The Carnival of the Animals and The Danse Macabre
NOVEMBER
Aaron Copland - November 14, 1900
American Composer of
Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, and
Fanfare for the Common Man
DECEMBER
Ludwig van Beethoven - December 16, 1770
German Composer of
Hundreds of pieces and nine symphonies
including the famous Fifth and Ninth
JANUARY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - January 27, 1756
Child Prodigy, Austrian Composer of over
600 pieces of music including
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic (A Little Night Music)
FEBRUARY
George Frideric Handel - February 23, 1685
Composer of the famous
'Hallelujah Chorus'
in The Messiah
MARCH
Johann Sebastian Bach - March 21, 1685
German Composer of over 1000 songs including the
Brandenburg Concertos and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
APRIL
Sergei Prokofiev - April 23, 1891
Russian Composer of
Peter and the Wolf
MAY
Peter Tchaikovsky - May 7, 1840
Russian Composer of
The Nutcracker,
Romeo and Juliet,
Swan Lake
and the 1812 Overture
JUNE
Edvard Grieg - June 15, 1843
Norwegian composer of
the famous work,
the Peer Gynt Suite.