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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Beethoven, by Thomas Tapper
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+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
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+Title: Beethoven
+       The story of a little boy who was forced to practice
+
+Author: Thomas Tapper
+
+Release Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #34737]
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+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg"  alt="CHILD&#39;S OWN BOOK
+of Great Musicians
+BEETHOVEN
+
+By
+THOMAS TAPPER
+
+THEODORE PRESSER CO.
+1712 CHESTNUT STREET
+PHILADELPHIA" title="CHILD&#39;S OWN BOOK
+of Great Musicians
+BEETHOVEN
+
+By
+THOMAS TAPPER
+
+THEODORE PRESSER CO.
+1712 CHESTNUT STREET
+PHILADELPHIA" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/002.jpg" alt="binding diagram" title="binding diagram" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="h2">Directions for Binding</p>
+
+<p>Enclosed in this envelope is the cord and the
+needle with which to bind this book. Start in from
+the outside as shown on the diagram here. Pass the
+needle and thread through the center of the book,
+leaving an end extend outside, then through to the
+outside, about 2 inches from the center; then from
+the outside to inside 2 inches from the center at the
+other end of the book, bringing the thread finally
+again through the center, and tie the two ends in a
+knot, one each side of the cord on the outside.</p>
+
+<p class="h3">THEO. PRESSER CO., Pub's., Phila., Pa.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<p class="h2">HOW TO USE THIS BOOK</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="noindent">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.</p>
+
+<p>The sheet of illustrations included herewith is to be cut
+apart by the child, and each illustration is to be inserted in its
+proper place throughout the book, pasted in the space containing
+the same number as will be found under each picture on the
+sheet. It is not necessary to cover the entire back of a picture
+with paste. Put it only on the corners and place neatly within
+the lines you will find printed around each space. Use photographic
+paste, if possible.</p>
+
+<p>After this play-work is completed there will be found at
+the back of the book blank pages upon which the child is to
+write his own story of the great musician, based upon the facts
+and questions found on the previous pages.</p>
+
+<p>The book is then to be sewed by the child through the
+center with the cord found in the enclosed envelope. The book
+thus becomes the child's own book.</p>
+
+<p>This series will be found not only to furnish a pleasing and
+interesting task for the children, but will teach them the main
+facts with regard to the life of each of the great musicians&mdash;an
+educational feature worth while.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>This series of the Child's Own Book of Great Musicians
+includes at present a book on each of the following:</p>
+
+<table style="width:90%;" border="0" summary="timelines">
+<tr>
+  <td>Bach</td>
+  <td>Grieg</td>
+  <td>Mozart</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Beethoven</td>
+  <td>Handel</td>
+  <td>Nevin</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Brahms</td>
+  <td>Haydn</td>
+  <td>Schubert</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Schumann</td>
+  <td>Chopin</td>
+  <td>Liszt</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Dvo&#345;�k</td>
+  <td>MacDowell</td>
+  <td>Tschaikowsky</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>Foster</td>
+  <td>Mendelssohn</td>
+  <td>Verdi</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td></td>
+  <td></td>
+  <td>Wagner</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/page1a.jpg"  alt="Page one of illustrations" title="Page one of illustrations" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/page2a.jpg"  alt="Page two of illustrations" title="Page two of illustrations" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="h2">BEETHOVEN</p>
+
+<p class="center">The Story of a Little Boy<br />
+Who Was Forced to Practice</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">This Book was made by</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="hrbd" />
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="cursivecenter">Philadelphia<br />
+Theodore Presser Co.<br />
+1712 Chestnut Str.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="smfontcenter">
+<span class="smcap">Copyright, 1917, by Theodore Presser Co.</span><br />
+British Copyright Secured<br />
+Printed in U. S. A.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus01.jpg" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">BORN</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="hrbd" />
+
+<p class="center">DIED</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="hrbd" />
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;3]</span></p>
+
+<p class="h2">The Story of a Little Boy who was
+Forced to Practice</p>
+
+<p>Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely
+town of Bonn, on the River Rhine, December 16, 1770.</p>
+
+<p>The house in which he spent his boyhood is still
+standing. We see in the picture what a pretty, homelike
+place the house and the yard must have been. It
+is now the Beethoven House, or Museum, filled with
+mementos of the great composer. There you may see
+music pages written by him, letters, medals, instruments;
+even his ear trumpet is there.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus02.jpg"  alt="THE BEETHOVEN HOUSE"
+title="THE BEETHOVEN HOUSE" /><br />
+<span class="caption">THE BEETHOVEN HOUSE</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Beethoven's father was a singer
+at the Chapel of the Elector. He
+was not a good father, for he did
+not care to work even enough to
+make his family comfortable.
+But the mother loved her boy
+with all her heart, as we shall see.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus03.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN&#39;S FATHER" title="BEETHOVEN&#39;S FATHER" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN&#39;S FATHER</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Ludwig was only four years old
+when he began to study music.
+Like children of to-day he shed
+<span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;4]</span>
+many a tear over the first lessons. In the beginning his
+father taught him piano and violin, and forced him
+to practice. At school he learned, just as we do to-day,
+reading, writing, arithmetic, and later on, Latin.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus04.jpg"  alt="THE FIRST LESSON"
+title="THE FIRST LESSON" /><br />
+<span class="caption">THE FIRST LESSON</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Never again after thirteen, did Ludwig go to
+school for he had to work and earn his living.</p>
+
+<p>Do you wonder what kind of a boy he was?</p>
+
+<p>We are told that he was shy and quiet. He talked
+little and took no interest in the games that his boy
+and girl companions played.</p>
+
+<p>While Ludwig was in school he played at a concert
+for the first time. He was then eight years old.
+Two years later he had composed quite a number of
+pieces. One of these was printed. It was called
+<i>Variations on Dressler's March</i>. On the title page of
+this piece it said:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="noindentcenter">VARIATIONS ON DRESSLER'S MARCH<br />
+Composed by a Young Amateur<br />
+LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN<br />
+Aged ten years. 1780</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;5]</span>
+Then the little boy studied with a teacher named
+Christian Gottlob Neefe, who took real interest in
+him. Neefe did not, as was said of Beethoven's father,
+punish the little boy severely to keep him at his practice,
+hour after hour.</p>
+
+<p>Often when Neefe had to travel Ludwig took his
+teacher's place as organist at the Court. Then with
+the organ lessons there were other lessons in Harmony.
+So rapidly did the boy improve that his
+teacher said one day:</p>
+
+<p>"If he goes on as he has begun, he will some day
+be a second Mozart."</p>
+
+<p>Our young hero of thirteen was surely busy every
+hour of the day. He played in an orchestra, as accompanist.
+He gave lessons, played the organ in church,
+studied the violin, and kept up his work in composition.
+He always kept a note-book for musical ideas.</p>
+
+<p>Most every child in
+these days has more and
+better opportunities than
+had the great Beethoven
+when he was a child.
+Here is a picture of the
+funny old organ in the
+Minorite Church of Bonn
+upon which Beethoven
+played when he was a little
+boy.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus05.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN&#39;S ORGAN" title="BEETHOVEN&#39;S ORGAN" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN&#39;S ORGAN</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Look at the funny stops
+at the top and compare it
+with the best organ in
+your own town. This is
+little better than a toy beside
+<span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;6]</span>
+our fine organs of to-day,&mdash;yet it was the best
+that Beethoven had to practice upon.
+When Neefe said that he would probably be a
+second Mozart the words filled Ludwig with a great
+desire. On his sixteenth birthday what do you think
+happened? Why, he set out from Bonn to Vienna,
+where Mozart lived.</p>
+
+<p>But scarcely had he begun to feel at home in
+Vienna when news came to him that his mother was
+ill. She had always been a good mother, kind of heart,
+great of hope for her little boy, and probably she
+sympathized with the hard lot that made him have to
+work so early in life. When he learned of her sickness
+he hastened to Bonn.</p>
+
+<p>Who was happier, he said to one of his friends,
+than I, so long as I was able to speak the sweet name
+of Mother and know that she heard me?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus06.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN&#39;S MOTHER" title="BEETHOVEN&#39;S MOTHER" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN&#39;S MOTHER</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Vienna had given him a wonderful happiness.
+He met Mozart and had some lessons from him in
+composition. When he played for the great master,
+Mozart tip-toed from the room and said softly to
+those present:</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;7]</span>
+"Pay heed to this boy. He will surely make a
+noise in the world some day."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus07.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN AND MOZART" title="BEETHOVEN AND MOZART" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN AND MOZART</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>After his Mother's death he determined that he
+would remain there. And it was not until he talked
+with Joseph Haydn, who stopped at Bonn on his way
+to London, that he decided once more to journey to
+Vienna. Beethoven was twenty-two years old at the
+time he met Papa Haydn. Beethoven showed the
+master some of his compositions. Haydn urged him
+to go at once to Vienna, promising to give him lessons
+in composition on his return from London.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus08.jpg"  alt="JOSEPH HAYDN" title="JOSEPH HAYDN" /><br />
+<span class="caption">JOSEPH HAYDN</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;8]</span>
+Everywhere in Vienna Beethoven was a welcome
+guest. He was proud (but in the right way), very
+honest, always straightforward and independent.
+
+But, like his mother, he was warm-hearted and as
+true as could be. There was nothing in his nature
+that was mean, or cruel, or wrong in any way. He
+took pride in his talent and worked hard to perfect
+himself in it.</p>
+
+<p>Here is what Beethoven's handwriting looked
+like.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus09.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN&#39;S HANDWRITING" title="BEETHOVEN&#39;S HANDWRITING" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN&#39;S HANDWRITING
+<a href="music/beethoven.mid">Listen</a></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Bit by bit, the great power of Beethoven as a
+pianist became known. He played much among his
+friends, but he did not like to perform in public.</p>
+
+<p>A story is told that once he was to play his C major
+Concerto at a concert. When he arrived at the hall
+he found the piano was tuned so low that he had to
+play the Concerto in C# major.</p>
+
+<p>You know how hard it is to transpose a simple
+piece, but think of transposing a Concerto and playing
+it with orchestra without time for practice!</p>
+
+<p>Do you sometimes wonder what the great composer
+looked like? Beethoven lived outside of Vienna
+and often took long walks in the country. Once a
+little boy ten years of age was taken by his father to
+visit Beethoven. The boy must have been a very observant
+<span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;9]</span>
+boy for he wrote out a description of how
+Beethoven looked. This is the little boy's picture as
+a man:</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus10.jpg"  alt="CARL CZERNY" title="CARL CZERNY" /><br />
+<span class="caption">CARL CZERNY</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>And this is the description he gave of Beethoven.</p>
+
+<p>"Beethoven was dressed in a dark gray jacket and
+trousers of some long-haired material, which reminded
+me of the description of Robinson Crusoe I
+had just been reading. The jet-black hair stood upright
+on his head. A beard, unshaven for several
+days, made still darker his naturally swarthy face. I
+noticed also, with a child's quick perception, that he
+had cotton wool which seemed to have been dipped
+in some yellow fluid in both ears. His hands were covered
+with hair, and the fingers were very broad, especially
+at the tips."</p>
+
+<p>You know, of course, that when we think of music
+we think of <i>hearing</i> it. We think how it <i>sounds</i> to us.
+A lover of music loves
+to hear its <i>tones</i> and to feel
+its <i>rhythm</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Like every other human being, Beethoven loved
+music in just this way. He loved its sounds as they
+fell on the ear. As colors delight our eyes, so tones
+fell with delight upon the ears of this man.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;10]</span>Beethoven was once
+invited to play at the
+home of a nobleman,
+but upon being informed
+that he would be
+expected to go as a
+menial, he indignantly
+rejected the proposal.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus11.jpg"  alt="THE ANGRY BEETHOVEN" title="THE ANGRY BEETHOVEN" /><br />
+<span class="caption">THE ANGRY BEETHOVEN</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Beethoven had many
+friends and was fond
+of them. They knew
+that he was a genius
+and were glad to forget
+some of the very
+strange things that he
+did when he got angry. Here is a picture of the great
+master seated among a group of his friends. Although
+Beethoven was odd, his friends loved him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus12.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS" title="BEETHOVEN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;11]</span>
+But a strange Fate touched him and took away
+his sense of hearing. From the time he was about
+thirty years old his hearing grew gradually worse.
+Indeed it was necessary for him to have a piano especially
+constructed with additional wires so that he
+could hear.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus13.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN&#39;S PIANO" title="BEETHOVEN&#39;S PIANO" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN&#39;S PIANO</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Can you think of anything more cruel, more
+terrible, more depressing, more awful?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus14.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN IN THE COUNTRY" title="BEETHOVEN IN THE COUNTRY" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN IN THE COUNTRY</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;12]</span>
+And yet he went on day, after day, composing
+beautiful music as he walked the fields, or as he sat
+at his table. For we must remember that he could
+hear his own music in his thoughts. That is, the mind
+that made the music could hear it, though the ear itself
+was forever closed to the sound of it.</p>
+
+<p>Year after year he continued to write symphonies
+and concertos, sonatas, songs, choral and chamber
+music.</p>
+
+<p>And year after year the poor ears closed a little
+more and still a little more, until finally not even the
+loudest noises could penetrate them.</p>
+
+<p>And yet he worked bravely; writing every beautiful
+music thought that came to him, so that the
+world, and that means you and all of us, might have
+them. When Beethoven was dying in 1827, Schubert
+called upon him and remained with him for some time.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus15.jpg"  alt="BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT" title="BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT" /><br />
+<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<p class="h3"><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;13]</span>
+SOME FACTS ABOUT BEETHOVEN</p>
+
+<p>Read these facts about Ludwig van Beethoven
+and try to write his story out of them, using your
+own words.</p>
+
+<p>When your story is finished ask your mother or
+your teacher to read it. When you have made it as
+perfect as you can, copy it on pages 15 and 16.</p>
+
+<p>1. The composer's full name was Ludwig van
+Beethoven.</p>
+
+<p>2. He was born at Bonn on the River Rhine.
+(Look for Bonn on the map.)</p>
+
+<p>3. His birthday is December 16, and his birth
+year was 1770.</p>
+
+<p>4. The Beethoven House is now a Museum.</p>
+
+<p>5. Beethoven's father was a singer.</p>
+
+<p>6. Ludwig began to study music at the age of
+four.</p>
+
+<p>7. He was shy and quiet in school, always thinking
+even then of music.</p>
+
+<p>8. Even as a little boy he composed music.</p>
+
+<p>9. When he was ten years old his first published
+composition appeared.</p>
+
+<p>10. A teacher who helped him very much was
+Christian Gottlob Neefe.</p>
+
+<p>11. Beethoven learned to play several instruments.</p>
+
+<p>12. He went to Vienna when he was sixteen, met
+Mozart and had lessons from him.</p>
+
+<p>13. Later, Beethoven met Haydn at Bonn.</p>
+
+<p>14. On Haydn's advice he returned to Vienna,
+making it his home for the rest of his life.</p>
+
+<p>15. Carl Czerny once called on Beethoven and
+wrote a fine description of him.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;14]</span>
+16. At about thirty Beethoven became deaf.</p>
+
+<p>17. Most of the great symphonies were composed
+after he lost his hearing.</p>
+
+<p>18. Beethoven died March 26, 1827, at the age
+of 57.</p>
+
+<p class="h3">SOME QUESTIONS</p>
+
+<p>1. When and where was Beethoven born?</p>
+
+<p>2. Who was his first teacher?</p>
+
+<p>3. What did his father do?</p>
+
+<p>4. How long did little Ludwig go to school?</p>
+
+<p>5. What description of him as a boy in school
+has been given?</p>
+
+<p>6. How old was he when he first played in
+public?</p>
+
+<p>7. What composition of his was first to be published?</p>
+
+<p>8. Which of his teachers took great interest in
+him?</p>
+
+<p>9. What did he say about the little boy's future?</p>
+
+<p>10. Where did Beethoven go when he was sixteen
+years old?</p>
+
+<p>11. With what two great masters did he study?</p>
+
+<p>12. What composer, as a little boy, went to see
+Beethoven?</p>
+
+<p>13. How did he describe him?</p>
+
+<p>14. Name some of the forms of music which Beethoven
+composed.</p>
+
+<p>15. Write a list of music by Beethoven that you
+have heard.</p>
+
+<p>16. What is a concerto? a sonata?</p>
+
+<p>17. How old was Beethoven when he died?</p>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<p class="h2"><span class="pagenum">[Pg&nbsp;15]</span>
+THE STORY OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN</p>
+
+<p>Written by.......................................</p>
+
+<p>On date..........................................</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/illus16.jpg"  alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="hr2"/>
+
+<div class="tnote">
+
+<p class="h3">Transcriber's Notes:</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>On page 13, "ten year old" was replaced with "ten years old".</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
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