First Discovery Music
Illustrated biographies about musicians and composers with Audio CD
Beautifully illustrated children’s books about the lives of the classical composers and more modern jazz musicians for 8 to 12 year olds. On the accompanying Audio CD, the narration of the text is interwoven with recordings of the artist’s music, creating an evocative experience that immerses the reader in the artist’s life and music. The first half of the book relates the childhood of the composer, the second half focuses on their career as a musician or composer. Fun exercises help to develop the reader’s knowledge and understanding of the music.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
£13.95
Mozart was already writing music by the age of five, and when he was still very young, he traveled all over Europe and played for the Emperor of Austria, the King of France, and the Queen of England….
Ray Charles
£15.95
Follow Ray Charles’s rise from humble beginnings, overcoming hardship, loss, and blindness to become the undisputed king of rhythm ‘n’ blues. Each spread relates a different stage of his life, and key…
Fryderyc Chopin
£14.95
As a young Polish boy, Chopin was already composing his own tunes at the age of five. He learned Latin, Greek, and French, then German, English, and Italian at the same time he was learning to play th…
Franz Schubert
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At the age of seven, Franz Schubert already knew as much about music as his teacher. Did you know that Schubert was part of a string quartet with his father and two brothers? By the age of fifteenhe h…
Ella Fitzgerald
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Follow Ella’s rise to become a queen of jazz, renowned for her remarkable scat improvisations, but also for her very personal interpretations of the Broadway classics and her live performances with Du…
Claude Debussy
£14.95
As a boy, Debussy wanted to be a sailor. At music college in Paris he used to shock his teachers with the sounds he made on the piano. Children who want to know how to make a glass sing or hear the so…
Louis Armstrong
£14.95
This illustrated biography of Louis Armstrong tells the life of the greatest jazz musician and singer of his age, and gives an introduction to his music. Born in New Orleans in 1901, Louis Armstrong l…
Ludwig van Beethoven
£14.95
Beethoven did badly at school because all he could think about was music, and Mozart was one of his early admirers. Children will learn that they can make up a tune to their favorite poem and sing it,…
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Bach was born into a family of many musicians—composers, singers, and instrumentalists. At the age of 12, he could play the harpsichord, the organ, the violin, and the viola. Children who are curious…
Henry Purcell
£14.95
Purcell was a court musician like his father and uncle. He also wrote music for the theater—a mixture of instrumental pieces, songs, and dances. Children who have tried making up their own dance steps…
George Frideric Handel
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Did you know that Handel played music in secret as a child, because his father did not want him to be a musician?
Antonio Vivaldi
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Antonio Vivaldi’s father was a baker and a barber as well as being a violinist by profession. Vivaldi became a priest very young and was nicknamed the red priest because of his red hair. Children who…
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