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Frederick Chopin, The Son of Poland, The Later Years

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Chopin remembered Vienna as the city where he had made an instant success with his music, so when, after years...

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Frederick Chopin,The Son of Poland, The Early Years

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Frederic Chopin, celebrated pianist and probably the greatest composer for the piano the world has ever known, was born in...

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Handel, at the Court of Kings

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With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of...

{"id":11142316490,"title":"Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant","handle":"joseph-haydn-the-merry-little-peasant","description":"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.\"\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003eThen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003e(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau, Austria. Most of his life was spent in Vienna where wealthy families employed him as Music Director for their orchestras and\/or ensembles. He wrote concertos, masses, operas, string quartet pieces, and symphonies. During his lifetime he was called the \"Father of the Symphony.\" His most famous works are the \"Farewell Symphony,\" the \"Surprise Symphony,\" and the \"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser\" which was used as the national anthem for both Austria and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-07-09T21:43:57-04:00","created_at":"2017-07-09T21:43:58-04:00","vendor":"Zeezok Pub\/Book Peddler","type":"","tags":["MORE! Much more...","MORE! 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His parents watched the boy drawing one stick slowly across the other as he played so seriously, keeping perfect time.\"\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003eThen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003e(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau, Austria. Most of his life was spent in Vienna where wealthy families employed him as Music Director for their orchestras and\/or ensembles. He wrote concertos, masses, operas, string quartet pieces, and symphonies. During his lifetime he was called the \"Father of the Symphony.\" His most famous works are the \"Farewell Symphony,\" the \"Surprise Symphony,\" and the \"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser\" which was used as the national anthem for both Austria and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant

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This is a simple, inspiring children's biography of the great musician Haydn. This story, like all the stories of the...

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A deeply stirring tribute to the greatest composer of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003eLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was born in Bonn, Germany but spent his adult life in Vienna, Austria. He gained fame as early as age 8 as a virtuoso pianist. He became a composer, conductor, and a performer. He began to lose his hearing in his twenties and gradually became totally deaf. He never married. His compositions were many. He numbered his sonatas and symphonies. His piano sonata #14 was named \"Moonlight Sonata.\" His symphony #3 was named \"Eroica.\" His 9th symphony is now called the\"Anthem of Europe,\" with it's special section entitled \"Ode to Joy.\" His piano sonata \"Pathethique\" is his most celebrated piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-07-09T21:50:45-04:00","created_at":"2017-07-09T21:50:46-04:00","vendor":"Zeezok Pub\/Book Peddler","type":"","tags":["MORE! Much more...","MORE! 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But the master could not hear them, and as a singer turned him gently to face the audience, the noble head bowed low as he saw from the flutter of handkerchiefs, the applause that rained upon him. Thus Opal Wheeler captures the superb quality of musical greatness of Beethoven and communicates it to boys and girls. A deeply stirring tribute to the greatest composer of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp aria-level=\"0\" aria-posinset=\"0\" aria-setsize=\"0\"\u003eLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was born in Bonn, Germany but spent his adult life in Vienna, Austria. He gained fame as early as age 8 as a virtuoso pianist. He became a composer, conductor, and a performer. He began to lose his hearing in his twenties and gradually became totally deaf. He never married. His compositions were many. He numbered his sonatas and symphonies. 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Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells

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Here is the story of Ludwig van Beethoven, greatest master of all, told with feeling and delicate skill for boys...

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