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diff --git a/34550.txt b/34550.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61d0891 --- /dev/null +++ b/34550.txt @@ -0,0 +1,774 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Franz Joseph Haydn, by Thomas Tapper + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Franz Joseph Haydn + The Story of the Choir Boy who became a Great Composer + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: December 2, 2010 [EBook #34550] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + HAYDN + + [Illustration] + + This book is one of a series known as the CHILD'S OWN BOOK OF + GREAT MUSICIANS, written by Thomas Tapper, author of "Pictures + from the Lives of the Great Composers for Children," "Music + Talks with Children," "First Studies in Music Biography," and + others. + + _By_ + THOMAS TAPPER + + THEODORE PRESSER CO. + 1712 CHESTNUT STREET + .PHILADELPHIA. + + + + + Franz Joseph Haydn + + The Story of the Choir Boy who + Became a Great Composer + + + This Book was made by + + .......................... + + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO. + Printed in U. S. A. + + + + + [Illustration] + + BORN + + .................................. + + DIED + + .................................. + + + + + The Story of the Choir Boy who Became a Great Composer + + +Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, a little Austrian village not far from +Hainburg. + +It is quite worth while for you to look for this town and for the River +Leytha in any large geography. You may not find Rohrau itself, for it is +a very small town, but you will surely find the River Leytha which flows +by it. + +The parents lived in a very modest little house. The picture of this +house is worth studying, and remembering. As you see, it is of one story +with a thatched roof. The farm buildings are joined to the house itself. +The windows look inviting and pretty. They seem to tell us very plainly +that it is warm and cosy within. + + [Illustration: HAYDN'S BIRTHPLACE] + +It will be easy for you to remember the year in which Joseph Haydn was +born, because you have already learned in school that our President, +George Washington, whose picture should be inserted here, was born in +the same year--1732. + +This President's birthday was in what month? What day of the month? + + [Illustration: WASHINGTON] + +Joseph Haydn was born on March 31st of the same year (he used to say +that he was born "in the night" between March 31st and April 1st). + +Washington's father died in the year when he and Joseph Haydn were ten +years old. This is a picture of Washington, as a man, bidding his mother +good-bye before leaving for a war. + + [Illustration: WASHINGTON LEAVING HOME] + +Little Joseph Haydn's father and mother were poor, but they loved +cleanliness and system. + +They feared God, worked hard, and loved music. Joseph's father used to +sing in a clear tenor voice, accompanying himself on the harp. At home +little Joseph was called Sepperl. + +When the child was old enough, he, too, began to sing. He quite +surprised everyone by his sweet voice. + +In the neighboring town of Hainburg there lived a schoolmaster named +Frankh, who used to visit the Haydns and play the violin. Sepperl used +to watch him very closely, and one day he, too, began to play the violin +while his father and mother were singing. But he had no real violin, of +course, so he had to play on a make-believe one of two sticks. But he +sang in tune and kept time with his wooden bow. + + [Illustration: SEPPERL PLAYING ON TWO STICKS] + +One day the schoolmaster chanced to come up the street while the little +boy was playing his make-believe music. Watching him closely, he saw +that he was really fond of music. + +Then Cousin Frankh, as they called him, had a long talk with Sepperl's +father and mother. After a while it was agreed that the little boy +should go to Hainburg (the place you found on the map), and there become +a pupil of the schoolmaster. + +They worked hard at the school in those days. Once, when Haydn was an +old man, he said: "I shall be grateful to that man (the schoolmaster) as +long as I live, for keeping me so hard at work. But I used to get more +floggings than food." + +When he was six years old, Sepperl could "stand up like a man" and sing +masses in the church choir, besides playing a little on the piano and +the violin. + +It once happened that a drummer was needed in a procession in Hainburg. +Frankh called Sepperl, and showed him how to make the stroke. But the +boy was so small that someone had to carry the drum for him, Sepperl +following up and beating it as he had been taught. Haydn was very fond +of playing the drums, and even as a boy tried to learn how to play +right. + + [Illustration: HAYDN DRUMMING] + +But Joseph Haydn was to do other things. + +One day a man from Vienna visited the pastor of the Hainburg Church. He +heard the little boy sing and liked his voice so much that he invited +him to become a chorister in the huge Church of St. Stephen. He was +eight years old when he arrived in the great city of Vienna, still a +little farther away from home than he was at Hainburg. + +There was much else to do in the great church beside singing in the +choir. There were music studies, of course, in singing, violin and piano +playing. But there were also school studies to be learned every day. +These were Religion, Latin, Writing and Arithmetic. + + [Illustration: ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH] + +But one must not think that because Sepperl was a busy musician he did +not love fun like other boys of eight. One day the choristers sang at +the Royal Palace at Schoenbrunn, just outside of Vienna. The scaffolding +was still standing about the building, and Joseph climbed to the top. +The Empress Maria Theresa caught him at this mischief and gave an order +that "that blockhead should have a good spanking." + +Five years after Joseph Haydn entered St. Stephen's, his brother Michael +joined the choir. It was just at that time that Joseph's voice began to +change. One day when the Empress heard him she said his voice sounded +more like a rooster's crowing than anything else. The choirmaster, +taking the hint, prepared to dismiss him. + +But before Joseph said good-bye to his schoolmates his spirit of fun +bubbled over again. Someone had left a pair of new scissors where he +found them. + +What should he cut with them? + +Ah, he knew. He would cut off the pigtail of one of the choir boys. And +he did. + +Joseph Haydn was never lazy. His father and mother had taught him to +love work. He was industrious, happy-hearted, and made friends easily. +People loved him and he began to meet those who could help him. One of +these was the great poet, Metastasio. Another was the singing master, +Nicholas Porpora, who taught him music composition in return for which +the boy brushed the master's clothes, polished his boots, did anything +and everything, even to running errands. And all because he was so +anxious to be taught how to compose music. + +Then soon afterward Haydn met Gluck, the opera composer; and another +time Wolfgang Mozart and his father, Leopold Mozart. So you see he was +getting on famously. + + [Illustration: GLUCK] + + [Illustration: L. MOZART] + +One day he was invited to become Music Director (or Vice-Capellmeister, +as it was called) in the family of a great man who was known as Prince +Paul Anton Esterhazy. + +Haydn's position in the Esterhazy home gave him just the opportunity he +wanted. There was an orchestra, and for it he composed all sorts of +music. + +When the band was to play for the Prince's family and its guests, Haydn +and the players were required to wear white stockings and white collars, +and a pigtail or tie-wig. + +If you could have watched him conduct the players, you would have seen a +very short man with short legs; his face pitted with the marks of +small-pox. His nose was large, his eyes gray, but of the kindest +expression. + +And here is a picture which shows exactly how the "good-natured sort of +fellow" looked. + +[Illustration: SILHOUETTE OF HAYDN] + +A butcher in the town where Joseph was living wanted to celebrate his +daughter's marriage with fitting music, and was bold enough to ask +Joseph to compose a Minuet for the occasion. Joseph good-naturedly +consented, and wrote the Oxen Minuet, and made the butcher and his +daughter very happy. People say that soon after the wedding the butcher +appeared at Joseph's door leading an ox all decorated with ribbons and +with gilded horns. + + [Illustration: OXEN MINUET] + +For many years Haydn remained in the peace and quiet of the Esterhazy +family life. But, nevertheless his good work was heard of in distant +places. He received many invitations to travel to foreign countries. +One of these he accepted. He went to England; twice in fact. The night +before he left Vienna he and Mozart dined together. + +"Do not go on such a long journey," Mozart begged of him. "You are too +old and you do not know languages enough to travel through so many +countries." + +"But," said Haydn, "I know one language that is understood +everywhere--the language of music." + +Mozart said farewell to his old friend. They never met again. + +On the way north, along the Rhine, Haydn met Beethoven at Bonn; and it +was arranged that Beethoven should study with Haydn on his return to +Vienna. + +When the traveler reached Calais he took the boat to Dover in England. +He was so enchanted by the sight of the sea that he sat on deck all the +way, to watch it. Never before had he seen such a sight, for, we must +remember, he was born far inland. + + [Illustration: HAYDN ON CALAIS BOAT] + +Most men do their best work in their younger years, but in Haydn's later +years he wrote two of his greatest works: _The Creation_ and _The +Seasons_. _The Creation_ is loved by all people. It is one of a group of +favorite oratorios which have found a warm place in the hearts of the +people. With it stand _The Messiah_, _Judas Maccabaeus_, _St. Paul_ and +_Elijah_. Do you know who composed each of these? + +After the English journeys, Haydn lived quietly in Vienna in what is now +known as the Haydn house. Should you ever go to Vienna you will be +welcomed there by the caretaker, who will show you the rooms in which +Haydn lived. + +One day toward the end of his life he asked his servant to carry him to +the piano. While the members of his household stood near him he played +three times, very solemnly, the _Emperor's Song_. + + [Illustration: THE EMPEROR'S SONG] + +This is the way Haydn wrote his name-- + + [Illustration] + + + + + FACTS ABOUT FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN + + +When you have read this page and the next make a story about Haydn's +life. Write it in your own words. When you are quite sure you cannot +improve it, copy it on pages 15 and 16. + + + SOME FACTS ABOUT JOSEPH HAYDN. + +1. He was born at Rohrau, in Hungary, March 31, 1732. + +2. He was a few weeks younger than George Washington. + +3. As a little boy he loved to hear his father and mother sing. + +4. While they sang he played on a "make-believe" violin, of two sticks. + +5. He left home at the age of six and never lived there again. + +6. First he became a choir-boy at Hainburg. + +7. When he was eight years old he entered St. Stephen's in Vienna as a +chorister. + +8. After he left St. Stephen's he worked hard for many years. Many +people whom he met in this time helped him. + +9. Among his friends of this period were: Metastasio, Porpora, Gluck, +Mozart and his father, and Beethoven. + +10. For a time he was Beethoven's teacher. + +11. He spent a great part of his life in the Esterhazy family. + +12. Here he was Vice-Capellmeister and composer to the Prince. + +13. He was a short, stout man, with kindly gray eyes, and very dark +hair. + +14. He went twice to England to conduct his symphonies. + +15. Haydn was called the father of the Symphony and of the String +Quartette. + +16. He composed a song which will always be famous. It is called _The +Emperor's Song_. + +17. He died in 1809, seventy-seven years of age. + + + SOME QUESTIONS. + +1. Where and in what year was Joseph Haydn born? + +2. By what name was he known at home? + +3. Who was his first teacher? + +4. What studies had he at St. Stephen's? + +5. With what distinguished family did he live for many years? + +6. Give the names of some of the distinguished composers whom he knew. + +7. What great composer was his pupil for a time in Vienna? + +8. Why did Mozart think that Haydn should not travel through so many +strange countries? + +9. What two great works did he write after he returned from England? + +10. In what year did Haydn die? + +11. Can you find in what year George Washington died? + + + THE STORY OF FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN + + Written by............................................ + + On (date)............................................. + + [Illustration] + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +On page 8, "singingmaster" was replaced with "singing master" + +On page 14, a period after "St. Stephen's" was replaced with a question +mark. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Franz Joseph Haydn, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN *** + +***** This file should be named 34550.txt or 34550.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/5/5/34550/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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