Musician biography questions for middle school

Whether it’s for celebrations, mourning, entertainment, religion, political protest, romance or comfort, humans have had music. Music is so intrinsic to the human experience that hearing it has a marked influence on brainwaves, brain activity and brain chemistry in ways that other modes of communication don’t.

In other words, music moves people in powerful ways.

Evolving from primitive tribal instruments to the most sophisticated, even digital, instruments today, musicians have been using music to spread messages and express the whole spectrum of human emotions.

Some notable musicians through time include the classical geniuses Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).

Considered the ‘father of harmony’, Bach’s music may seem very old-fashioned to you, but at the time his patrons criticized his