Did you know Bach had 20 kids?
Did you know Beethoven cut the legs off the piano so he could "hear" the vibrations of his music after he was deaf?
Did you know that at age 2, Mozart identified a pig's squeal as a G sharp.
Did you know that Philip Glass had to work as a plumber and taxi driver when starting to write music?
Did you know Brahms was not a very good student in school.
Did you know that Andrea Bocelli went blind at the age of 12?
Did you know Liszt was so popular in his day he would equal the greatest pop singer of today?
A fun wordle of a variety of musicians names.
A composer is a person who writes (composes) music but doesn't always play the music like Beethoven or Handel.
A perfomer is a person who plays the music but doesn't always write the music like Pavaratti or Yo-Yo Ma.
Composers are the writers of music. People have been composing music for hundreds of years. Find information about different composers below.
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Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy
Elvis
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