A blog designed to help kids and parents learn to enjoy classical music. Families come together around great composers and learn the difference between a symphony and a sonata. Find out who Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart were and enjoy many more works of music throughout history.
Why are all new movies, either a sequel or a remake? It’s because we like what we like and Hollywood knows it. The symphony is similar. Nearly every composer from the late 1700s through the early 1900s composed symphonies. It was a form that people knew and loved. In today’s post, discover Mozart’s Little G Minor Symphony, written when he was just 17.
Read MoreWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a one-of-kind musician. He rose to fame when he was a child and played piano or violin in concerts throughout central Europe during his childhood. As an adult, Mozart became a highly productive composer and greatly sought after. During his lifetime he composed 41 symphonies, 22 operas, 23 piano concertos, multiple works for choirs, and hundreds of pieces for solo instruments. This is even more impressive since he died at age 35.
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