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Posted: Dec 04 2009 at 10:32am | IP Logged Quote mom2mpr
Anyone aware of a composer who has composed many Christmas tunes? I am looking for a composer to study for the next few weeks.
I might just take a Christmas song or two, like Silent Night, and work on the history behind it. But wanted to know if I could cover more territory, if you know what I mean.
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Posted: Dec 04 2009 at 11:37am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
As far as classical composers, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Bach all have music associated with Christmas and are who I tend to think of when I think Christmas composers. All these composers were covered here on 4 Real in the past Composer of the Month studies. Though the studies don't focus on Christmas music, you could probably get some resources to get started there.

It's not a classical composer but if you did want to go the route of studying a couple individual carols, I put together a Christmas Carol Study a few years ago. It has the history of some carols and great picture books to go along.

Stories Behind the Best Loved Christmas Carols and it's sequel are a fun place to start to look at the history of different carols.



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Okay, not necessarily a classical composer, but Isaac Watts wrote Joy to the World, along with thousands of other hymns. He was a 15 year old complaining about the songs in church, and his father challenged him to write something better. Joy to the World was written as he meditated on Psalm 98.

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