Animals and Music
Musicians and artists are sometimes inspired by their animals. Many famous composers had pets, and some even wrote music about their four-legged companions!
Mozart
As a young boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart traveled throughout Europe. He sent postcards to his dog named Bimper! He also had two other dogs, some birds, and a pet grasshopper.
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi loved animals. He had a dog named Lou Lou, parrots, cats, and even peacocks!
Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky had birds as pets. He wrote a polka for fifty elephants wearing tutus!
Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev had a cat and a dog. The cat loved to sleep in Prokofiev's favorite armchair.
Chopin
Frederic Chopin wrote his Waltz in D flat (Op. 64 No. 1) about a dog chasing his tail! He also wrote a Cat Waltz (Op. 34 No. 3) that was inspired by a noise a cat made by by jumping on a piano.
If you know of other composers who wrote about animals, please leave me a comment. I am writing a blog entry on Camille Saint-Saens who wrote, The Carnival of the Animals. The South Carolina Philharmonic performs it every year for local school children.
Mozart
As a young boy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart traveled throughout Europe. He sent postcards to his dog named Bimper! He also had two other dogs, some birds, and a pet grasshopper.
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi loved animals. He had a dog named Lou Lou, parrots, cats, and even peacocks!
Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky had birds as pets. He wrote a polka for fifty elephants wearing tutus!
Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev had a cat and a dog. The cat loved to sleep in Prokofiev's favorite armchair.
Chopin
Frederic Chopin wrote his Waltz in D flat (Op. 64 No. 1) about a dog chasing his tail! He also wrote a Cat Waltz (Op. 34 No. 3) that was inspired by a noise a cat made by by jumping on a piano.
If you know of other composers who wrote about animals, please leave me a comment. I am writing a blog entry on Camille Saint-Saens who wrote, The Carnival of the Animals. The South Carolina Philharmonic performs it every year for local school children.
posted by Elizabeth | 10:30 PM
2 Comments:
i like music and animals... especially piano and horses.
***liza
I like playing the piano, too. What type of music do you like to play? I am learning two new classical pieces.
Elizabeth
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