Composer Study

Ambleside Online’s Composer for the 2011/12 school year’s second term is Felix Mendelssohn. Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe From AO’s composer schedule, here are the selections, including his Octet, which, according to Wikipedia, was composed when he was only sixteen years old: 2011-2012 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Albert Bierstadt, landscape) Felix […]

For anyone interested, here is a playlist for the Ambleside Online Term II composer Vivaldi over at Grooveshark: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Ao+Term+2+Vivaldi/42604578 I think we’ve all heard the most popular of the Four Seasons, but have you ever heard his beautiful chorale Gloria or any of his other concertos? They are just beautiful. In our home, we haven’t