Actual Quotes from Grade School Essays on Classical Music
A Virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music.
Refrain means don’t do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing-
J.S. Bach died from 1750 to the present.
Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this.
Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard of.
Aaron Copland is one of our most famous contemporary composers. It is unusal to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
To be continued . . .
Contributed by Cathie Campbell