Music Class with Mrs. Kraus
  • Mrs. Kraus' Music Room
  • McAnnulty
    • Kindergarten
    • 1st Grade >
      • 1st Grade Practice
    • McAnnulty Pictures
  • Whitehall
    • Whitehall Pictures
    • 2nd Grade
    • 3rd Grade
    • 4th Grade >
      • Make Your Own Instrument
      • 4th Grade Sound >
        • Interesting Sound Information
    • 5th Grade >
      • Ukulele
      • John Williams
      • Composer Project
  • Recorders
    • Recorder Work & Flipgrid
    • 3rd grade recorder test
    • Squeaky's Recorder Help
  • Choir
    • Rehearsal Tracks
    • Newsletters
    • Calendar
    • Singing Saturday
    • PMEA Sing Fest
  • Apps & Websites
  • BWSD Music
  • Helpful (and interesting!) Videos
    • How It's Made
    • STOMP
    • Pentatonix
    • Listening Page
    • Videos for Adapted Class
  • About
  • Contact
  • The Nutcracker

And the new composer is....

3/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Telemann! Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Germany in 1681.  For generations, Telemann men became ministers, and Georg Phillip was no exception.  As a child, he loved music.  He taught himself to not only play instruments but to compose as well.

When Telemann went off to University in Leipzig, he was supposed to forget about being a musician.  Somehow, his roommate found out that he was a composer and had one of his pieces performed in church.  That was the end of his career as a minister and the beginning of his composing career!  

He spent his adult life composing, and was even the composer for a Duke in Poland!  He eventually became the music director for a big city; first Frankfurt and then Hamburg.  In this job he was able to compose music for churches and special occasions, conduct concerts and teach music.  Telemann was influenced by folk instruments and the sounds of life around him.  You can hear these influences in some of his pieces.  Follow the Classics for Kids link on the Apps & Websites page above to hear some of his most famous works.
0 Comments

    Author

    Mrs. Kraus teaches general music at McAnnulty and Whitehall Elementary Schools as well as directs the 5th Grade Choir at Whitehall. 

    Tweets by MrsKrausMusic

    Archives

    February 2022
    June 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    September 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    September 2014

    Categories

    All

    Picture
    ​*All links, videos, and images on this site are property of the original creator and I claim no ownership of these items.  They are included here for educational purposes only.*
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.