Norman Rockwell

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Franz Joseph Haydn

Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, public domain

Classics for Kids has many excellent podcasts about composers.

Click here to listen to a few about Haydn.

Titles in this series include:
About Franz Joseph Haydn

Father of the Symphony

The Farewell Symphony

Minuets

Firsts

For more great podcasts for kids about famous composers, go to Classics for Kids.

Click here to see a selection of downloadable materials from CurrClick which could be used in a study of composers.

Clicking these links will take you away from My Audio School, so be sure to get an adult’s permission.

Chopin

Chopin


These podcasts, and others, can be found at Classics for Kids.

Chopin’s Polonaise in A Major, No. 1, “Military” click “Hear the Music”

Click here to listen to the podcasts about Chopin, and for an activity sheet and quizzes.

Titles in this series:

About Frederic Chopin

The next few podcasts relate to Chopin, but tell about other composers, as well.

The Polonaise

Military Music

Famous Pianist-Composers

Click here to see a selection of downloadable materials from CurrClick which could be used in a study of composers.

These links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

Beethoven

Beethoven composing the Missa Solemnis by Joseph Karl Stieler

All of these shows and many more can be streamed at Classics for Kids. Clicking these links will take you away from My Audio School to the Classics for Kids website.
Click here to read a biography of Ludwig van Beethoven or to listen to Symphony No. 5 (click Hear the Music).

Click here to listen to the Beethoven podcasts on Classics for Kids.

Titles in this series are:

About Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven the Pianist

Beethoven’s Symphonies

Music that imitates inanimate objects

Click here to see a selection of downloadable materials from CurrClick which could be used in a study of composers.

These links will take you away from My Audio School.

Franz Schubert

Schubert_octet_Autograph

These programs, and many more, can be streamed at Classics for Kids. Clicking these links will take you away from My Audio School  to the Classics for Kids website.

Click here to read a short biography about Franz Schubert.  To listen to Marche Militaire, click “Hear the Music”.

Click here to listen to podcasts relating to Franz Schubert.

Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder, 1875

Titles in this series are:

About Franz Schubert

Take me to your Lieder

Music for Piano Four Hands

Marches Not Written for Bands and Parades

Click here to see a selection of downloadable materials from CurrClick which could be used in a study of composers.

These links will take you away from My Audio School.

Great artists volume 1

Plato and Aristotle in the School of Athens by Rafael

Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. (Summary by Laura Caldwell for Librivox).

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Read this book yourself

Internet archive page

To view the illustrations that accompany the text, click here.

You can also listen to this book by clicking play in the box below, or by clicking on the chapter links in this post.

Lady with a Unicorn by Rafael Santi

0 – A Word to the Teacher


1 – Raphael Santi – The Perfect Artist, the Perfect Man

The Little Fruit Seller by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

2 – Murillo and Spanish Art

3 – Peter Paul Rubens

Pope Peter by Rubens


4 – Albrecht Durer and his City
Durer self portrait at 28