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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: Beethoven + The story of a little boy who was forced to practice + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: December 23, 2010 [EBook #34737] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEETHOVEN *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="CHILD'S OWN BOOK +of Great Musicians +BEETHOVEN + +By +THOMAS TAPPER + +THEODORE PRESSER CO. +1712 CHESTNUT STREET +PHILADELPHIA" title="CHILD'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—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>Dvořák</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> </p> + +<hr class="hrbd" /> + +<p> </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> </p> + +<hr class="hrbd" /> + +<p class="center">DIED</p> + +<p> </p> + +<hr class="hrbd" /> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 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'S FATHER" title="BEETHOVEN'S FATHER" /><br /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN'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 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:—</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 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'S ORGAN" title="BEETHOVEN'S ORGAN" /><br /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN'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 6]</span> +our fine organs of to-day,—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'S MOTHER" title="BEETHOVEN'S MOTHER" /><br /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN'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 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 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'S HANDWRITING" title="BEETHOVEN'S HANDWRITING" /><br /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN'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 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 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 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'S PIANO" title="BEETHOVEN'S PIANO" /><br /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN'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 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 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 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 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> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Beethoven, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEETHOVEN *** + +***** This file should be named 34737-h.htm or 34737-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/7/3/34737/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://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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