Funny Gifts for a Music Teacher
A good gift for a music teacher is a composer with a sense of humor. Honeyman Tees shows Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Clara Schumann as cute chibi storybook-watercolor characters with a speech-bubble joke, and each design includes the true story behind the music. These shirts suit music teachers, band directors, orchestra directors, choir leaders and anyone who loves classical music. Every shirt is printed to order, with production taking 3-10 days, and ships free to US addresses. They make an easy gift for a recital, a concert season or the end of the school year.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart T-shirt
“Wrote my first symphony at eight. You?”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first symphony in 1764, when he was eight years old and staying with his family in London.
Ludwig van Beethoven T-shirt
“Moody? I prefer 'early Romantic.'”
Ludwig van Beethoven bridges two eras: his early works follow in the footsteps of Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and his later ones helped launch Romantic music.
Johann Sebastian Bach T-shirt
“Twenty kids. Still found time for fugues.”
Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children with his two wives, and he still wrote more than 1,000 works, including some of the most famous fugues ever written.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky T-shirt
“Dancing candy? Hear me out.”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet premiered in St. Petersburg in 1892, and one of its dances features the celesta, a bell-like instrument he had discovered in Paris.
Antonio Vivaldi T-shirt
“Can't pick a season. Wrote all four.”
Vivaldi's best-known work, published in 1725, is a set of four violin concertos, one for each season, and each comes with a short poem describing that season.
Clara Schumann T-shirt
“Not 'Robert's wife.' Concert pianist, thanks.”
Clara Schumann was a celebrated concert pianist and composer who performed across Europe for about 60 years, and she was famous in her own right before she married a fellow composer.
Mouse King T-shirt
“Seven heads. Zero impulse control.”
In E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 Christmas story, the Mouse King has seven heads, each with its own crown; many later stage versions give him just one.
