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Fun Composers for Children

Some fun composer for childen to listen, dance, or move to are: Fucik, Grieg, Joplin, Moussorgsky, Rimsky, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky,
Waldteufel, and many more that I haven't discovered yet.

Classics for Kids WGUC 90.9 Shows, hear music played, activity sheets, games, and music.
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio A playlist of different pieces from various composers.

Composer Resources
Learn more about different composers using the below links, your encyclopedia, go to Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary, or you can search for them at: Google.com.

Composer Periods @ DSO Information about lots of composers and music files for most of the composers.
Classical Music Archives
Classical Net: Composer Master Index
This site has information and pictures of lots of composers.
Classical Composer biographies
Classical MIDI Files by David Siu @ midiworld
Clasical Music of St. Petersburg, Russia
Composers Collectors and Lyricists @ SBG Music: Making Music
Composer Databook
Early Music Women Composer's MIDI Soundfiles
Early Women Composers/Artists/Poetry
Japanese Women Composers: Links & Sources
Masters Symhonic Band Series Including some audio files. (Children's Suites, etc.)
MP3.com  Piano - Robin Alciatore
MP3 Files zip files
MP3, MIDI and Online Music @ mp3.about.com
naxos.com: Your World of Classical Music
Sounds of the Austin Symphonic Band
The Music Library of Denis Bouriakov
WWW VL Classical Music: Composers
Yahoo! Directory Music Artists > Composers

Music-scores.com - Composer Index
Midi's and sheet music (for a cost).

FreeMusicNow: Public Domain Sheet Music

Sheet Music USA


I'm not sure about the time periods for these music eras since some sites say one thing and others say another time.

Gregorian Chants 500 - 1450


Gregorian Chants MP3 Downloads


Gregorian Chants

Medieval Period
Music Hall Manuscripts
The Gregorian Chants Home Page

Listen to chants
Gregorian Chants: Mysic.Music There are some you can listen to.
Vol. I, No. 3: 2. Focus On: Gregorian Chants for Christmastide

Renaissance 1450 - 1600
Composer Periods @ DSO Kids

Gabrieli: Giovanni Gabrieli (1555-1612)
Italy

Giovanni Gabrieli MP3 Downloads


Giovanni Gabrieli, Composer @ DSO Including a sample of Canon Septimin Toni #2.

Baroque 1600 - 1750

Best of Baroque Music MP3 Downloads


Composer Periods @ DSO Kids
Baroque Composers and Musicans  Italy, Italy to Germany, Germany, England, France, Spain, Europe to the New World
Baroque Music Page: biogs, pictures, music samples It also defines baroque music on this site. New 8/29/08

1653-1713 - Arcangelo CORELLI - Rome
1659-1695 - Henry PURCELL - England
1660-1725 - Alessandro SCARLATTI (father) - Italy
1660-1741 - Johann Joseph Fux - Austria
1668-1733 - Francois COUPERIN ("the Great") - France
1670-1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Italy
1671-1751 - Tomaso ALBINONI - Italy
1679-1745 - Jan Dismas ZELENKA - Prague, Dresden
1680-1762 - Francesco GEMINIANI - Italy, England
1681-1767 - Georg Philipp TELEMANN - Germany
1683-1764 - Jean Philippe RAMEAU - France
1685-1757 - George Frideric HANDEL - Germany, England
1685-1757 - Domenico SCARLATTI (son) - Italy, Spain
1692-1766 - Unico Willem van Wassenaer: the mystery composer - Holland
1712-1786 - John STANLEY - England

Albinoni: Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1750)
Italy

Albinoni,  Tomaso History
Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 @ Karadar
 
Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) South Germany

Bach MP3 Downloads


J.S. Bach Home Page
A Johann Sebastian Bach Midi Page
Midi's, Biography, works, pictures, and resources.
JS Bach: Analysis of Canons & Fugue


Handel: George Handel (1685-1759)
Born in Germany and Died in London

George Frideric Handel, Composer @ DSO
Handel: Music for Pianos The Messiah

Verdi: Giuseppe
Verdi (1813-1901)
Italy
Composer @ DSO No music.

Vivaldi: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Venice, Italy
Composer of violin music.

Antonio Vivaldi MP3 Downloads


Vivaldi
Classical Music Archives: Vivaldi
Click on the top links to find the best downloads.

Classical 1750-1820
Composer Periods @ DSO Kids

Classical Music Archives
Best of classic in mp3
Albinoni, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Glasunov, Glinka, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, Sviridov, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi
Classical Music in Russia Audio Archive
Classical Piano Midi Page Beethoven, Ludwig van; Haydn, Joseph; and Mozart, Wolfgang
Karadar Classical Music
Lots of composers and midi files.
Music for Piano
Music from CUBE (MP3 and RealAudio)
Sandy Berkovski - Classical Music Audio files.


Beethoven: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Germany

Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphanies & Piano Sonatas Downloads


Beethoven Depot
Beethoven Piano Music: Free mp3 audio files @ pianomp3.com or MP3.com  Piano - Robin Alciatore Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, etc.
Portrayal of Nature Lesson to go with "The Storm"("Thunderstorm").
Karadar.com
Moonlightsys.com
Sheet Music USA: Ode to Joy Beethoven and midi file
Sheet Music USA: Moonlight Sonata and midi file

Online Activities
Playing with the 1st Movement of Beethoven's 1st  Piano Sonata
Playing with Tempo and Dynamics: Beethoven's Piano Sonata op 31 #3

Haydn: Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
Austria

Franz Haydn MP3 Downloads


Piano Music - Men @ Music for Pianos Fantasia in C, Andante Theme from the "Surprise" (a fun tune that the notes go up and down), St. Anthony Chorale
Joseph Haydn, Composer @ DSO

Mozart: Wolgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Austria
Piano Music - Men Music for Pianos Andante mit Variationen
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer @ DSO


Civil War
Public Domain Music Sequenced by Benjamin Robert Tubb

(I'm not sure what to put the below composer under.)

Root: George F. Root (1820-1895)
George F. Root
The Music of George Frederick Root

Romantic (Romanticism) 1820 - 1910
Composer Periods @ DSO Kids

Romantic Period Music

Bizet
Brahms
Chopin
Dvorak
Holst
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninof
Ravel
Rossini
Schubert
Wagner

Classical Piano Midi Page Albéniz, Isaac; Balakirew, Mili; Borodin, Alexander; Brahms, Johannes; Burgmueller, Friedrich; Chopin, Frederic; Debussy, Claude; Granados, Enrique;  Grieg, Edvard; Liszt, Franz; Mussorgsky, Modest; Schubert, Franz; Schumann, Robert; Tchaikovsky, Peter, and Christmas

Albéniz: Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909)
Classical Piano Midi Page - Albéiz Including the "Tango".

Debussy: Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
French composer
Moonlight: Composer - Claude Debussy (MP3)
Sheet Music USA Clair de Lune by Debussy and midi

Fucik: Julius Fucik (1872-1916)
Czech composer
Florentiner March @Sounds of the Austin Symphonic Band March to part (or all) of this music.

Grieg: Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Norwegian composer

Edvard Grieg MP3 Downloads

From Peer Gynt Suite
Grieg: Anitra's dance
In the Hall of the Mountain-King, Anitra's Dance, (and others) @ CUBE

Holst: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Gustav Holst MP3 Downloads

Joplin: Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
He was a black American ragtime pianist and composer.  He was born in Texarkana, Texas. He wrote rags, songs, marches, a ballet, and two operas.

DECOY's Scott Joplin Page History and lots of midi's on this page.
Joplin, Scott on Encylopedia.com
The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, and other pieces @ Classical Music Archives

Liszt: Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Hungarian pianist & composer
Classical MIDI Resources
Music for Pianos Franz Liszt
Merriam-Webster: Liszt

Moussorgsk / Mussorgsky: Modest Moussorgsky  / Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Modest Moussorgsky MP3 Downloads



My Page: Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky

Images for Picture at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky Sheet Music
Pictures at an Exhibition - Ballet of the unhatched chicks midi
Pictures at an Exhibition - part I @ Virtual Sheet Music (and midi's)
Pictures At An Exhibition - The Music

Paganini: Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
He was born on October 27, 1782 in Genoa, Italy.  He was a violinist.
Legendary Violinists. Niccolo Paganini
Niccolo Paganini
Niccolo Paganini Sheet Music and midi files

Puccini: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
One of his operas is Madame Butterfly.
Puccini/Greatest Romantic Opera Composer
Puccini.com - Honoring the great Operatic Composer
WIEM: Puccini G., Opera "Madame Butterfly"

Rachmaninof: Sergei Rachmaninof (1873 - 1943)
Classical Music in Russia - Audio Archive: Rachmaninof

Rimsky-Korsakov: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
The Rimsky-Korsakov Home Page
The Flight of The Bumble Bee Lesson
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio: Channel 4: The Flight of the Bumblebee

Saint-Saëns: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Camille Saint-Saëns MP3 Downloads

Music for Pianos Camille Saint-Saens
Classical Music Archives: S
Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
SFS Kids: Fun With Music: The Elephant

Schubert: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Austria

He was one of the first of the Romatics music.

Franz Peter Schubert MP3 Downloads

Franz Schubert - Wikipedia

Tchaikovsky: Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Russian composer

Classical Music Archives: Tchaikovsky Swan Lake and many more.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy @ CUBE The children can dance to part (or all) of this music.
Waltz of the Flowers

Waldteufel (1837 - 1915)
Skater's Waltz @ CUBE The children can skate to part of this music.

Romantic & Modern

Copland: Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Aaron Copland MP3 Downloads

Welcome to the Website of Copland House

Modern 1910 - Present
Composer Periods @ DSO Kids

Anderson: Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
Leroy Anderson
American composer.  Some songs that he is well known for are: Sleigh Ride, The Syncopated Clock and Blue Tango.

Bernstein: Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918  - October 14, 1990)
United States
Famous for:  Candide, On the Town, and West Side Story.
The Official Leonard Bernstein Web Site
The Leonard Bernstein Collections Including photos.
Leonard Bernstein, Composer Including a music clip of On the Waterfront

Britten: Benjamin Britten (November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976)
England
Pieces include: Suite on English Folk Tunes.

Benjamin Britten MP3 Downloads


Benjamin Britten, Composer @ DSO Kids

Gershwin: George Gershwin [(September 26, 1898) and Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896)]
The Official George and Ira Gershwin Web Site
History, anthology, jukebox, and events.

Ives: Charles Ives (1874-1954)
American

Prokofiev: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Sergei Prokofiev MP3 Downloads


iclassics.com: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Including other songs and ram samples.
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio: Channel 4 Various pieces from Peter and the Wolf (The Duck; The Bird; The Cat)
The Prokofiev Page

Stravinsky: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer @ DOS


Music Artists

Cramer/Marder Artists
MP3, MIDI and Online Music @ mp3.about.com

Andre Watts
He is the son of an African-American and a Hungarian mother.
Andre Watts
André Watts At Carnagie Hall, 25th Anniversary Recital
You can hear various samples at amazon.com.
Classically Black: Andre Watts


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