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This book is about the brilliant young Schubert, his merry friends,
and their pranks and escapades, in most of which Franz is the hero.
One of the most interesting stories in the book is the new light
that is shed on the history of the Unfinished Symphony. It remained
unfinished, not because of poverty, illness and discouragement, or
because of the composer's early death. The real reason, according
to the authors, was that Schubert's merry friends were starting for
a picnic just when he was in the middle of it, and he went along.
Before he left he stuffed the partly written score in his desk and
it was never taken out again There are many selections from the
composer's magnificent music in this volume. We have the March
Militaire, the Moment Musicale, the theme of The Erlking, a dance
from the opera, Rosamunde, Rondos, Dances, the lovely, lovely
waltzes, impromptu pieces, the Cradle Song (a favorite of almost
every child) and several of the beautiful songs.
This is the first complete life of Bach ever written for children.
Every important incident is mentioned and every detail of the story
is true. It is filled with vivid descriptions of Bach's childhood:
how he sat up many nights and copied music by the light of the
moon, and how he walked two hundred miles to a choir school at
Luneburg. Then his adult life: how he helped his wife Magdalena put
the twenty children to bed every night; how he spread brown bread
with honey for them to eat every afternoon; and how he taught them
all to sing and play different musical instruments. The music
reproduced here represents all of the different kinds of music that
Bach ever wrote. A child can never really know music unless he
knows Bach, for his contribution is the foundation and structural
basis of all music. But it is more the human side of this book that
will make it live, for in it the great master breathes. All who
read it will know him...not only as a musical genius, but also as
an eager child, an affectionate father, and a lovable human being.
Johannes Brahms, the frail little son of poor parents, spent the
first years of his life in a wretched tenement in the old harbor
city of Hamburg. It is here that the present story opens. His
father, an irresponsible musician, kept the child up, playing the
piano at low taverns, until all hours of the night for whatever
small payment he could get. However, little Johannes's love for
fine music and for composing finally led to lessons and then to a
speedy success. Composing, teaching, playing on whatever piano was
found available, these filled the boy's day. The present book
closes when, at fifteen, he dedicates a beautiful piece to
Lieschen, the lovely daughter of Adolf Giesemann in whose home he
has spent the summer. Several of Brahms's best-known compositions
are included.
This is a simple, inspiring children's biography of the great
musician Haydn. This story, like all the stories of the great
composers by Wheeler and Deucher, will win its way into the hearts
of all music-loving children; for it, too, is told with all the
understanding, sympathy and appreciation that its two inspired
authors have to give. "Little Sepperl as the child Franz Joseph
Haydn was called] always sat on a wooden stool near his father and
with two smooth pieces of wood held firmly in his hands, played his
own make-believe violin. His parents watched the boy drawing one
stick slowly across the other as he played so seriously, keeping
perfect time." Then one day he went to live with his cousin in a
town near Vienna, close by the river Danube. There he learned to
read music and sing. Once when the drummer was too sick to march in
a procession, little Franz Joseph was asked to take his place. So
he practiced all day on the meal barrel with a cloth tied over the
top...until he could play the part without a single mistake. Such
was the musical beginning of the boy who later played before kings
in palaces, and who has left us some of the most beautiful music
ever written. For boys and girls, from 8 to 12 years of age, this
book is particularly recommended. It has the great value of being
instructive, cultural and inspiring, as well as recreational.
"Here, at last, is the new edition of Mozart, The Wonder Boy, that
you have wanted for such a long time. The first book of Mozart, The
Wonder Boy, had some delightful music, but you wanted still more,
and here it is - thirty-five full pages of Mozart music that you
will find at the end of the story. And now what a joyous time you
will have as you give yourself a beautiful concert, playing the
lovely waltzes, minuets, and sonatas, all of them written by
Mozart, the Wonder Boy." Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher (from the
original 1941 edition)
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