Stories of Great Musicians

Stories of Great Musicians – is a biographical series of great musicians by Annie C. Thayer and published in 1905. This book consists of four biographical sketches. There are such great classical musicians as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, conductor, music teacher. He was the author of over thousand pieces of music in all significant genres of his time. Bach's creative heritage is interpreted as a generalization of the musical art of the Baroque. George Frederick Handel was German and English composer of the Baroque era, famous for his operas, oratorios and concerts. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian virtuoso musician and composer. Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer, representative of the Viennese classical school, one of the founders of such musical genres as symphony and string quartet, also contributed to such genre as clavier sonatas.