Description: Used hardcover of Great Composers by Piero Ventura. See pictures for damage. Book blurb: DID YOU KNOW ... that Handel began composing at age ten, Mozart at age eleven? that Beethoven composed even after he lost his hearing? that the Assyrians often used music to put their soldiers in a fighting mood? that the Greeks used it to cure depression? that Louis Armstrong was the King of Jazz? Often when we hear music, the notes speak to us—telling tales and evoking emotions in an almost magical way. Piero Ventura allows us to reach even further toward the composers who wrote some of the most inspired music through the cen-turies, making accessible the conditions under which they composed and the motivations behind certain works. The scenes depicted within the pages of this ambitious book reveal the countless different roles music has played, from ritual dances to court ballets, and are accompanied by vivid portrayals of the artists themselves, rendered by Piero Ventura's own sons. In a companion to Great Painters, Ventura once again magnificently captures the personalities, hardships and concerns of great artists within the framework of their lives and the world in which they lived and gives music a language all its own.
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Book Title: Great Composers
Signed: No
Book Series: Historical
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 11.5in
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 2-3, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Under 2 Years
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Novel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6in
Author: Piero Ventura
Features: Illustrated, Dust Jacket
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Topic: Performing Arts / General, General, Biography & Autobiography / Music
Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
Item Weight: 30 oz
Item Width: 9in
Number of Pages: 124
