Classical Duets for the Cello

Christine Watts

Feb 2011 · Mel Bay Publications

About this ebook

Wonderfully simple and light-hearted biographies, perfect for children, teach lessons thru the composer's life and how they reacted to their circumstances and childhood. This is to depict that the great composers were 'human' and suffered hard times, but overcame their difficulties to become the best they could be. The majority of the pieces are written for the piano and violin and transcribed to let the cellists have fun too. Second cello parts are written to be interesting and stimulating both rhythmically and melodically; all typeset in a larger font appealing to children.

About the author

Christine Watts is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As a young competition winner, she twice performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Watts first began teaching at the New School of Music in Philadelphia with the Curtis String Quartet at the New School of Music in 1975. She currently teaches and plays in the faculty orchestra at the Kimberton Waldorf School in Phoenixville, and in the Wayne Art Center chamber group in Wayne Pennsylvania.