Guidance Sheet
Your essay should answer ALL of the following questions.
- Where was your composer born?
- When was your composer born?
- What was going on in music when he/she was born?
- What was going on in the world when he/she was born?
- What were the names of your composer’s parents?
- How many siblings did the composer have?
- Where did the composer learn music?
- From whom did the composer learn music?
- What instrument did the composer first play?
- Was the composer’s family supportive of music?
- Where did the composer get his first musical job?
- Did your composer have immediate musical success?
- What was the first successful musical composition this composer composed?
- Did the composer make most of his money composing or by performing?
- What are three of the most famous of your composers compositions?
- Describe how the music sounds. Is it exciting, angry, tender, sorrowful, happy, scary, complex, simple, fast, slow, or all of them at once?
- Did your composer compose like the rest of the era in which he/she was born or in a new style?
- Who influenced your composer’s ideas about how music should sound?
- What major obstacles stood in the way of this composer’s success?
- What did your composer love to do?
- Whom did your composer love?
- Did your composer have a successful family life?
- Did your composer’s success last or did it die out?
- How did your composer die?
- When did he/she die?
- Who was affected by his/ her death?
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