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Here are the life stories of such diverse figures as Vivaldi, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Nadia Boulanger, and Woody Guthrie. Readers will learn of both their musical natures and the personal, humorous characteristics that make their lives so fascinating. Living, breathing anecdotes--the stuff of which the best biography is made.
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Nannerl Mozart, sister of the famous Wolfgang, has a gift for music and wishes to be remembered forever--but for a woman in eighteenth-century Europe, that is never going to happen. She is allowed to perform only until she is of marriageable age--on order of her tyrannical father--but when her younger brother begins to eclipse her skills, she begins to despair of her life. Then, a mysterious stranger from a magical world arrives with an irresistible...
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With stunning and expressive illustrations, Diane Stanley portrays Mozart's turbulent life as a marionette show, inspired by the famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre, using an innovative artistic approach to present the life of a renowned musical genius. In concise and lyrical prose, Stanley presents an honest and sympathetic portrait of the boyhood and tragically short adulthood of a composer whose music has lived on for more than two hundred years....
11) Mozart's wig
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Mozart's wig is discovered by Digby and his sister Hannah in Mr. Rummage's stall at a busy antiques market. This stall holds many different objects and each one tells a great story! Both children love listening to Mr. Rummage's amazing tales of the people who owned these items and how each person made history.
12) Mozart tonight
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On the eve of his great operatic triumph "Don Giovanni," Mozart looks back on the events of his life that led to this moment.
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"Learn about fifty amazing kids who changed the world in this illustrated collection of inspiring short biographies sure to empower and motivate in equal measure. This volume is an introduction to just some of the many incredible young people from all over the world who have influenced a cultural, political, or social change throughout history. From Louis Braille to Greta Thunberg, Pelé to Malala Yousafzai, these activists, inventors, artists, and...