Composer Biography Sites

 

MUSIC BIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

Nearly 5,000 composer biographies can be found in Infotrac’s Biography in Context.   Choose BIOGRAPHY in CONTEXT from the list of databases and search your composer by name.  ( If you are prompted for a password,  type “2072801230” without the quotes.)

Type “composer” into the search box to choose names from a list of over 350 composers in Biography.com

WorldBook Encylopedia contains 10,000 biographies of famous people. To sign-in from school, use the following username:  mvmlibrary and password:  worldbook 

COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY SITES

Classical Composers Archive includes hundreds of composers, alphabetically by name.

These links connect to sites for composers who lived in a certain time period or who wrote a specific type of music.

Extensive list of classical composers.

From Infoplease, short biographies on classical and modern  composers.

Biographies for 50 very famous composers.

NEED MORE?

Type your composer’s name and the words “biography” and “composer” into any search engine.     Example:   John Williams composer biography    

 NEED IDEAS?

Check these music award sites for ideas for songwriters & composers.

  

Compiled & checked njkane 5/9/13