Classical Composers

Meet the original rock stars: brilliant, rebellious, and sometimes outrageous composers who changed music forever.

Classical Composers connect the past to music kids hear today. Movie scores, video-game music, pop songs, ballet, and even advertising draw on musical ideas developed by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky.

The term "classical music" refers most often to the period from mid-18th to the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Composers from different periods such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and many others, are all considered classical composers. This new and well-researched and accessible series looks at a selection of composers who have had lasting impact on Classical music, opera, and symphony today.  A truly inspirational biography series for young readers.

Content Advisor: John Viscardi, Executive Director of Classic Lyric Arts; co-founder of ArtSmart.org

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"...an overwhelmingly dynamic and captivating biography of a woman whose life and work should be more widely known.  An ideal introduction to a Black female pioneer and her work." --Kirkus Reviews on Florence Price

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Johann Sebastian Bach

LB: 978-1-64371-412-7
EB: 978-1-64371-415-8
PB: 978-1-64371-413-4
AB: 978-1-64371-464-6

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

LB: 978-1-64371-418-9
EB: 978-1-64371-421-9
PB: 978-1-64371-419-6
AB: 978-1-64371-465-3

Ludwig van Beethoven

LB: 978-1-64371-424-0
EB: 978-1-64371-427-1
PB: 978-1-64371-425-7
AB: 978-1-64371-466-0

Frederic Chopin

LB: 978-1-64371-430-1
EB: 978-1-64371-433-2
PB: 978-1-64371-431-8
AB: 978-1-64371-467-7

Clara Schumann

LB: 978-1-64371-436-3
EB: 978-1-64371-439-4
PB: 978-1-64371-437-0
AB: 978-1-64371-468-4

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

LB: 978-1-64371-442-4
EB: 978-1-64371-445-5
PB: 978-1-64371-443-1
AB: 978-1-64371-469-1

Florence Price

LB: 978-1-64371-448-6
EB: 978-1-64371-451-6
PB: 978-1-64371-449-3
AB: 978-1-64371-470-7

George Frideric Handel

LB: 978-1-64371-454-7
EB: 978-1-64371-457-8
PB: 978-1-64371-455-4
AB: 978-1-64371-471-4
 

5 New Titles released AUGUST 2026!

Their lives are compelling human stories. They faced poverty, discrimination, family pressures, illness, war, competition, and rejection just like many children today—and still created extraordinary work.

Johannes Brahms

LB: 978-1-967893-00-3
EB: 978-1-967893-03-4
PB: 978-1-967893-01-0
AB: 978-1-967893-05-8

Joseph Bologna

LB: 978-1-967893-18-8
EB: 978-1-967893-21-8
PB: 978-1-967893-19-5
AB: 978-1-967893-23-2

Franz Joseph Haydn

LB: 978-1-967893-06-5
EB: 978-1-967893-09-6
PB: 978-1-967893-07-2
AB: 978-1-967893-11-9

Marianna Martines

LB: 978-1-967893-24-9
EB: 978-1-967893-27-0
PB: 978-1-967893-25-6
AB: 978-1-967893-29-4

Franz Schubert

LB: 978-1-967893-12-6
EB: 978-1-967893-15-7
PB: 978-1-967893-13-3
AB: 978-1-967893-17-1

NEW! COMPLETE 13-TITLE RLB SET

979-8-34806478-5: $398.45 (List) / $298.87 (S&L)