Story-Lives of Great Composers (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Little Bakeless
- First Published: 1940
- Time of Work: 1659–1940
- Setting: Russia, Germany, Finland, Italy, England, France, Czechoslovakia (Bohemia), Sicily, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Modeste Moussorgsky, Aleksandr Borodin, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Frederick Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Engelbert Humperdinck, Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Music or musicians, England or English people, Composers, Germany or German people, Biography, Russia or Russian people, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: France, United States, England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sicily, Italy, Bohemia, Finland
Form and Content
In Story-Lives of Great Composers, Katherine Little Bakeless has selected nineteen important composers from the mid-1600’s to the mid-1900’s about whom she feels very little has been written for young adults. She tells, in short-story biographical form, of the emergence of these individuals’ musical genius, of their training, and of their reverence for the great musicians who had come before them. Many of these composers, all of whom are male, are linked through friendship, collegiality, and mentoring as well as through their dedication to the...
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