General Information

There are books about composers, their lives and music in my studio, but you can also look for information on the web. There are some great sites with lots of information -- sometimes too much information. I have listed some useful general ones here and sites with specific information about composers under each composer's entry below.

• Composers' Gallery: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Kids' Page www.nyphilkids.org/gallery/main.phtml
• Information about orchestral composers and music history periods: Dallas Symphony Orchestra www.dsokids.com/2001/composerperiods.htm
• There is lots of information about anything to do with classical music at classicalmusic.about.com/. See musiced.about.com/od/historyofmusic/u/musiced_historyandcomposers.htm for information on specific composers and periods.
• The Classical Music Archives site www.classicalarchives.com has lots of information about composers and their music, and you can listen to recordings of well known compositions. You need to subscribe to take advantage of all that the site has to offer, but it is FREE!

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerors' Stone, with comments from John WIlliams.
• Indiana Jones main theme
• Jurassic Park theme music (conducted by John Williams)
• Theme from Schindler's List (opens with comments by Itzhak Perlman)

• Biography Sheet from Making Music Fun.com
• Try this Wordsearch based on key words from the John Williams biography above.

• Clair de Lune (Moonlight) from 'Suite Bergamasque', performed by Mária Kovalszki
• Golliwog's Cakewalk performed by Debussy himself (recorded on a piano roll)
• Arabesque No 1, performed by Aldo Ciccolini
• La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair), played by Lang Lang
• La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral), performed by Debussy himself (recorded on a piano roll)
• La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral), performed byAldo Ciccolini
• Les Collines d'Anacapri (The Hills of Anacapri), performed by Lang Lang

• Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, performed by the London Symohony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski
• La Mer, performed by the London Symohony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev

• About.com: Classical Music
• Classical Archives
• New York Philharmonic Kids Zone Click on 'Names', then 'A...G', then scroll along until you get to 'Debussy' and click on his portrait.

• Marche Militaire No. 1 for piano duet, performed by Daniel Barenboim and Lang Lang
• Piano Sonata in Bb Major, D 960, first movement (first section), performed by Alfred Brendel. Here is the second part of the first movement.
  Notice Brendel's beautiful posture and hand shape.
• Piano Quintet, 'The Trout', fourth movement, based on Schubert's own song, 'The Trout'. Quintet performed by Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pre and Pinchas Zuckerman. The song is performed by Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake.
• Unfinished Symphony, first movement (first part), performed by Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Claudio Abbado
• Impromptus, Op. 90:
  No. 1, performed by Krystian Zimerman
  No. 2, performed by Krystian Zimerman; performed by 11 year old Gabrielle Chou.
  No. 3, performed by Krystian Zimerman
  No. 4, performed by Krystian Zimerman
• Impromptu Op 142 No. 3, performed by Vladimir Horowitz
• Ave Maria by Schubert arranged by Liszt for piano solo, performed on Liszt's 1862 piano by Sandro Russo

• Classical Archives
• Classical Net
• New York Philharmonic Kids' Zone. Click on 'Names', then 'N...S', then on 'Schubert'.
• Think Quest. This page contains information about a number of composers from the Romantic Period. Scroll down to find Schubert.

•  Symphony No. 94, 2nd Movement, performed by the Berlin Philharmonc Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Jansons.
•  Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 1st movement, performed by Winton Marsalis and the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Raymond Leppard.
•  Emperor Quartet, slow movement, performed by the Southern Cities String Quartet.
•  Piano Sonata No. 53 in E Minor, finale, (HOB XVI 34), performed by Ingrid Fliter
•  Adagio in G Major, HOB XV 22 / II, performed on a fortepiano (an early piano) by Enrico Baiano.
•  Cello Concerto in C Major, 3rd movement, performed by Peter Wispelwey and Violons du Roy.

•  Classical Archives
•  New York Philharmonic Kids' Zone. Click on 'Names', then 'H..M', then on 'Haydn'.
•  Think Quest. This page contains information about a number of composers from the Classical Period.