Great Composer Biographies for Kids

Learn about the great music composers with biographies highlighting the composer’s life and music from DSOKids.com (Dallas Symphony Orchestra), NYPhilKids.com (New York Philhamonic) and MakingMusicFun.net.

• NYPhilKids.com features short audio clips to hear the music of the composer.
• DSOKids.com features short audio clips and interesting facts for kids about the composer.
• MakingMusicFun.net features printable sheet music, composer worksheets, and music classroom and homeschool lesson plans for many of the composers. 

 

Baroque Era Composers (1600-1750)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Biography
George Frideric Handel – Biography
Antonio Vivaldi – Biography

 

Classic Era Composers (1750-1820)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Biography
Franz Joseph Haydn – Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Biography

 

Romantic Era Composers (1820-1910)

Johannes Brahms – Biography
Hector Berlioz – Biography
Frederic Chopin – Biography
Claude Debussy – Biography
Anton Dvorak – Biography
Edvard Greig – Biography
Gustav Mahler – Biography
Modest Mussorgsky – Biography
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Biography
Gioachino Antonio Rossini – Biography
Camille Saint-Saëns – Biography
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Biography

 

Modern Era Composers (1910-Present)

Samuel Barber – Biography
Leonard Bernstein – Biography
Aaron Copland – Biography
George Gershwin – Biography
Duke Ellington – Biography
Charles Ives – Biography
Scott Joplin – Biography
Dmitri Kabalevsky – Biography
Sergei Prokofiev – Biography
Dimitri Shostakovich – Biography
John Williams – Biography