Classics for Kids Composer Podcasts and Coloring Pages

Introducing Children to Composers and Music Styles

The Classics for Kids Podcast links below help music students learn more about the composers of their pieces and various musical styles and forms. I love how they include interesting kid-friendly facts about composers with music samples intertwined throughout brief episodes that are less than 5 minutes.

I've included a few online coloring page links that some students like to fill in as they listen, or you could also give them a blank paper to illustrate a few facts they found interesting as they listen.

Click the link(s) below to listen to Classics for Kids podcasts or YouTube pieces about the composer of the piano piece you are learning or google the title of the Classics for Kids Podcast if the link is outdated due to recent changes.

Composer Podcasts and Activities

CK About Bach, Bach Coloring Page
CK About Beethoven, CK Beethoven’s Symphonies,   Beethoven Coloring, PA Beethoven Story
CK About Bizet, YTAragonaise, YT Les Toreadors, Habanera Line Rider, Farandole Line R
CK About Brahms, Brahms Coloring Page, Hungarian Dance #1, Hungarian Dance #5
CK About Chopin, Chopin Coloring Page
CK About Copeland, CK Copeland Rodeo YT Hoedown, YT Buckaroo Holiday
CK About Dvorak, Dvorak Coloring Page, MMF Dvorak Word Search
YT About Gounod, Funeral March of Marionette, Ave Maria
CK About Grieg, CK Grieg Peer Gynt Suite, In the Hall of the Mountain King Animated Story
CK About Handel, Handel Coloring Page, MMF Handel Word Search
CK About Haydn, Haydn Coloring Page
CK About Joplin
CK About Liszt, Liszt Coloring Page
CK About Mahler, YT Mahler Symphony
CK About Mozart, Mozart Coloring Page
CK About Rossini
CK About Saint-Saens, Carnival of Animals  Flamingos, Lion, Hens, Donkey, Tortoise, Elephant, Kangaroo, Aquarium, Long Ears, Cuckoo, Aviary, Pianist, Fossils, Swan, Finale
CK About Schubert, Schubert Coloring Page
CK About Strauss, Banditen Galop, Blue Danube LR
CK About Tchaikovsky, Color Page, Waltz of the Flowers, March of the Toy Soldiers, Trepak, Swan Lake
CK About Verdi, Verdi Coloring, Aida March, La Donna e Mobile, Sing Verdi Very Loud Kids
CK About Vivaldi, Vivaldi Coloring, CKVivaldi Spring Poetry and Sound Effects

Music Forms and Styles

Baroque Era Classic FM, Baroque Musical Things, Viss Get Inspired Going Baroque
Classical Era Classic FM, 60 Second Classical Guide, Viss Classical Composers and Forms
Romantic Era Classic FM, Viss Get Inspired Romantic Era, Romantic Era Viss Get Inspired
Modern Era, Making of a Steinway
Boogie Woogie Viss Get Inspired
12 Bar Blues Viss Get Inspired

CK Concerto
CK Fanfare
CK Halloween Music
CK Jazz in Classical Music
CK Marches Not Written for Parades
CK Minuet (Haydn)
CK Music that Imitates Inanimate Objects
CK Overtures
CK Patriotic Music, Viss Get Inspired Patriotic Music
Pop Music Chords Get Inspired Viss
CK Ragtime
CK Spanish and Latin American Composers, Viss Get Inspired Spanish Music

CK Suites
CK Waltz

There are additional composers on the ClassicsforKids Composer Explorer website. I've listed those that are most relevant to the piano pieces in Piano Adventures, Piano Pronto and LPM Bridge methods.

Composer Games

D'net Layton created a fun composer old maid or memory match game with composer facts that is great for piano group lessons. Lully's facts are unforgettable!

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