Card catalog description
Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems.

ANNOTATION

Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The author/illustrator for the highly successful Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series lends his creative talents to another fun, informative series, this one featuring world famous composers. Venezia's clever mix of full-color photos, his own tongue-in-cheek cartoonlike illustrations, and factual biographical information presents each composer as they really were, along with the forces that inspired their world-renowned music.