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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: Chopin + The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: January 20, 2011 [EBook #35013] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHOPIN *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="CHILD'S OWN BOOK +of Great Musicians +CHOPIN + +By +THOMAS TAPPER + +THEODORE PRESSER CO. +1712 CHESTNUT STREET +PHILADELPHIA" title="CHILD'S OWN BOOK +of Great Musicians +CHOPIN + +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> + +<hr /> + +<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>Chopin</td> + <td>Liszt</td> + <td>Schumann</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.png" alt="Page one of illustrations" title="Page one of illustrations" /> +</div> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/page2a.png" alt="Page two of illustrations" title="Page two of illustrations" /> +</div> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<div class="bbox"> +<p class="h2">Frederic François Chopin</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center">The Story of the Boy Who<br /> +Made Beautiful Melodies</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></p> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus01.png" width="400" height="560" alt="No. 1 +Cut the picture of Chopin from the picture sheet. +Paste in here. +Write full name and dates. +For dates see pages 12 and 13." title="No. 1 +Cut the picture of Chopin +from the picture sheet. +Paste in here. +Write full name and dates. +For dates see pages 12 and 13." /> +</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 the Boy who Made<br /> +Beautiful Melodies</p> + +<p>As long as we live and keep in touch with the +works of the great composers we shall love more and +more the music of Frederic François Chopin.</p> + +<p>It will be pleasant to learn from time to time +something about him. We should like, for example, +to know:</p> + +<p>In what country he was born.</p> + +<p>In what places he lived.</p> + +<p>What kinds of music he composed.</p> + +<p>Perhaps we may begin by learning that he was +born in a little village in Poland not far from the City +of Warsaw, beside which flows the famous river +Vistula. Here is a picture of the house in which +Chopin was born.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 685px;"> +<img src="images/illus02.png" width="685" height="400" alt="No. 2" title="No. 2" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN'S BIRTHPLACE</span> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 4]</span></p> + +<p>Chopin's father, a Frenchman by birth, was a +schoolmaster. (So was the father of Franz Schubert, +you remember.) The boy's mother was a native of +Poland. From the time when he was a little boy, the +future great composer loved his mother's country and +the people just as much as he loved the dear mother +herself.</p> + +<p>The father knew that his little son was musical, +so he took the greatest care to have him taught by the +best teachers. He watched over him quite as Leopold +Mozart watched the progress of Wolferl; and as Mendelssohn's +mother guided Felix and Fanny in their +first music lessons.</p> + +<p>Mendelssohn and Chopin were indeed very nearly +the same age. Mendelssohn was born in February, +1809, and Chopin was +born the first of March in +the same year. Let us +keep their names together +in our memory for the future.</p> + +<p>Mendelssohn died two +years before the death of +Chopin. Both of these +great composers kept +busily at their work until +the last year of their lives +although neither of them +was very strong.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus03.png" width="400" height="644" alt="No. 3" title="No. 3" /> +<span class="caption">F. MENDELSSOHN</span> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 5]</span> +Here is a picture of little Chopin playing for a +group of boyhood friends.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 611px;"> +<img src="images/illus04.png" width="611" height="400" alt="No. 4" title="No. 4" /> +<span class="caption">LITTLE CHOPIN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS</span> +</div> + +<p>Chopin was only nine years old when he first +played in public. It is said that he created quite a sensation. +But like all those who know that talent is +something to be worked for, he did not stop studying +just because his playing was pleasing to other people. +In fact, it was just on that account that he began to +work all the harder.</p> + +<p>Then there came a great change. He left his home +and went to Paris, where he lived for the rest of his +life. Even though he was but a youth of twenty-one, +he had already composed two concertos for the piano. +These he had played in public to the great delight of +all who heard him, but especially of his countrymen.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 6]</span> +You see, Chopin's going to Paris was a strange +journey. The boy was leaving his mother's country +and going to the land of his father. Like Joseph +Haydn, who went away at the age of six, Chopin +never lived at home again.</p> + +<p>But he did not reach Paris a stranger. The world +of music had heard of him and some of its great ones +welcomed his coming.</p> + +<p>Let us always think of these men who knew each +other well as a family.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/illus05.png" width="294" height="531" alt="No. 5" title="No. 5" /> +<span class="caption">LISZT</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/illus06.png" width="294" height="534" alt="No. 6" title="No. 6" /> +<span class="caption">BERLIOZ</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;"> +<img src="images/illus07.png" width="288" height="535" alt="No. 7" title="No. 7" /> +<span class="caption">MEYERBEER</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/illus08.png" width="297" height="538" alt="No. 8" title="No. 8" /> +<span class="caption">HEINE</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;"> +<img src="images/illus09.png" width="293" height="535" alt="No. 9" title="No. 9" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN</span> +</div> + +<p>Liszt was a great pianist.</p> + +<p>Berlioz was a famous composer for the orchestra.</p> + +<p>Meyerbeer was best known as an operatic composer.</p> + +<p>Heine was a great poet whose verses were set to +music by many song composers.</p> + +<p>Berlioz was the only +one of the group who was born in France.</p> + +<p>During his boyhood Chopin played much in public, +journeying to some of the great cities of Europe, +among them Vienna, Berlin, and Munich.</p> + +<p>Therefore, when he played in Paris it was as an +<span class="pagenum">[Pg 7]</span> +artist. Here, as at home, he charmed everyone by the +beauty of his music and the loveliness of his touch.</p> + +<p>He possessed the true piano hand. It was somewhat +narrow. The fingers were long and tapering. +It seemed at once strong and vigorous, yet delicate +and sensitive.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 618px;"> +<img src="images/illus10.png" width="618" height="400" alt="No. 10" title="No. 10" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN'S HAND</span> +</div> + +<p>Indeed, Chopin's music is of just these qualities. +It is strong in its nobility, delicate in its sentiment.</p> + +<p>One would think that to arrive in Paris and to be +welcomed by the great ones would make everything +easy.</p> + +<p>But it was not so for Chopin. Only a few people +were present at his first concert and for quite a while +he had no pupils.</p> + +<p>Indeed, it was all so discouraging that he made +up his mind to return to his beloved Poland.</p> + +<p>His friend, Franz Liszt, begged him not to go. +Others, too, urged him to stay in Paris. One friend, +who met him in the street as he was about to leave, +advised him as did the others to stay in Paris.</p> + +<p>But no, he was going home.</p> + +<p>"But," said this friend, "first come with me to visit +a true lover of music."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 8]</span> +So Chopin went with him to the house of Baron +Rothschild. Here he played, so charming the company +with his music that ever so many of them begged +him for the privilege of lessons.</p> + +<p>And so, all in a moment, his troubles blew away, +as troubles often do. Here is a picture of Chopin +playing in the home of a prince.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 676px;"> +<img src="images/illus11.png" width="676" height="400" alt="No. 11" title="No. 11" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN PLAYING FOR THE PRINCE</span> +</div> + +<p>Do you wonder what kind of a man the little +Polish boy became after he found success in Paris?</p> + +<p>One person said about him:</p> + +<p>"Chopin talks little, and rarely about music. But +when he does speak of music one must listen to him."</p> + +<p>Another said:</p> + +<p>"He is reserved and quiet, especially among +strangers, but among his friends he is witty and full +of sly humor."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 9]</span> +But his thoughts were not for words, they did not +weave the pretty phrases of idle talk. They were busy +making nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, impromptus +and many other kinds of music that we shall learn to +love as we hear them.</p> + +<p>Music was Chopin's true speech. The world soon +learned to love what he said in it. And it always will +love it.</p> + +<p>See how beautifully he wrote his music.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<img src="images/illus12.png" width="700" height="354" alt="No. 12" title="No. 12" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN'S AUTOGRAPH <a href="music/chopin.mid">Listen</a></span> +</div> + +<p>There was neither telephone nor telegraph in +those days. Yet it did not take long for another composer, +Robert Schumann, who lived far away, in Germany, +to learn that a genius by the name of Chopin +lived in Paris.</p> + +<p>The post carried to Schumann a copy of Chopin's +first printed music. This was a theme taken from +Mozart's Opera <i>Don Juan</i>, which Chopin arranged +with variations for the piano.</p> + +<p>When Schumann played it to his friends everyone +exclaimed: "How beautiful it is!"</p> + +<p>Then someone said:</p> + +<p>"Chopin—I never heard the name. Who can +he be?" +<span class="pagenum">[Pg 10]</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus13.png" width="400" height="492" alt="No. 13" title="No. 13" /> +<span class="caption">R. SCHUMANN</span> +</div> + +<p>So we see that his +thoughts printed as music +flew like winged messengers +to carry news of him +to others in distant places. +And people not merely +asked: "Who can he be?" +but they found out who he +was, and kept passing the +news on and on until +finally it has reached +us!</p> + +<p>Chopin was never a robust person, though he was +well and busy most of his life. But in the last years +he suffered much from illness. This led him to travel +to many places from +Paris for the good of +his health.</p> + +<p>Chopin was devoted +to Poland, the beloved +land of his birth. Here +is a picture of the great +composer who has fallen +asleep at the keyboard +and is dreaming +of a glorious future for +Poland.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus14.png" width="400" height="546" alt="No. 14" title="No. 14" /> +<span class="caption">CHOPIN DREAMING OF POLAND</span> +</div> + +<p>Once he went to +England and to Scotland. +He played in +<span class="pagenum">[Pg 11]</span> +London and was highly praised for the beautiful way +he performed his own music.</p> + +<p>While it is true that Chopin was ill in the last +years of his life, we must notice that he kept right on +with his work. He played and composed just as he +always had done. Chopin died in Paris, October 17, +1849, just two years after Mendelssohn, who died in +1847.</p> + +<p>Many men, who would have given up everything +had they not been brave, have worked right on +through illness.</p> + +<p>Milton was blind, but he dictated <i>Paradise Lost</i> to +his daughter.</p> + +<p>Beethoven was deaf, but he did not give up composing.</p> + +<p>Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the lovely +<i>Child's Garden of Verses</i>, was ill all his life, but he +kept on writing. Grieg was probably never well all +his life, but he never gave up.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 416px;"> +<img src="images/illus15.png" width="416" height="577" alt="No. 15" title="No. 15" /> +<span class="caption">MILTON</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 420px;"> +<img src="images/illus16.png" width="420" height="593" alt="No. 16" title="No. 16" /> +<span class="caption">BEETHOVEN</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 423px;"> +<img src="images/illus17.png" width="423" height="590" alt="No. 17" title="No. 17" /> +<span class="caption">STEVENSON</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus18.png" width="400" height="580" alt="No. 18" title="No. 18" /> +<span class="caption">GRIEG</span> +</div> + +<p>Have you ever thought that the beautiful ideas of +great men sometimes outlive famous cities?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 12]</span> +What a lot of cities and countries we must visit +in our thoughts, to see the great composers at their +work. For example—</p> + +<p>1. Grieg belongs to Norway.</p> + +<p>2. Chopin to Warsaw and Paris.</p> + +<p>3. Schubert to Vienna in Austria.</p> + +<p>4. Bach to Thuringia in Saxony, Germany.</p> + +<p>5. Handel to Germany and England.</p> + +<p>6. Haydn to Hungary.</p> + +<p>7. Beethoven to Germany and Vienna. (He was +born at Bonn on the Rhine).</p> + +<p>8. Schumann to Germany.</p> + +<p>9. Mendelssohn to Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.</p> + +<p>10. Mozart to Salzburg and Vienna in Austria.</p> + +<p>It will be a pleasant thing for us to see if we can +arrange these names in order, beginning with the +oldest, Bach and Handel, and coming down to the +latest. By doing such things, time and time again, +they begin to stick in the memory.</p> + + +<p class="h3">SOME FACTS ABOUT CHOPIN</p> + +<p>When you have read this page and the next make +a story about Chopin's life. Write it in your own +words. When you are quite sure you cannot improve +it, copy it on pages 15 and 16.</p> + +<p>1. Frederic François Chopin was born in Poland.</p> + +<p>2. His birthday was March 1, 1809.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 13]</span> +3. He spent most of his life in the two cities of +Warsaw and Paris.</p> + +<p>4. His father was French; his mother Polish.</p> + +<p>5. At the age of nine he made his first public appearance +as a pianist.</p> + +<p>6. Many distinguished people welcomed him to +Paris.</p> + +<p>7. Among them were Liszt, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, +Heine.</p> + +<p>8. His first weeks in Paris were discouraging; +his first concert poorly attended.</p> + +<p>9. This tempted him to return to Poland.</p> + +<p>10. But his friends urged him to remain in Paris.</p> + +<p>11. Finally success came.</p> + +<p>12. Chopin was described as one who spoke little, +especially among strangers.</p> + +<p>13. Some of the music forms which he wrote are +the nocturne, waltz, mazurka, impromptu, concerto, +polonaise, etude.</p> + +<p>14. Schumann was one of the first to declare +Chopin a genius.</p> + +<p>15. Chopin worked hard all his life.</p> + +<p>16. But in his last years he suffered from ill-health.</p> + +<p>17. Like Milton, Beethoven, Stevenson and +Grieg, he kept on with his work, in spite of his illness.</p> + +<p>18. Chopin once went to England and Scotland.</p> + +<p>19. Chopin was very fond of Bach and urged +his pupils to practice Bach pieces every day for the +mental drill as well as the drill for the fingers. +<span class="pagenum">[Pg 14]</span></p> + + +<p class="h3">SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT CHOPIN</p> + +<p>1. In what country was Chopin born?</p> + +<p>2. In what two great cities did he live?</p> + +<p>3. In what year was Chopin born?</p> + +<p>4. What other composer was born about the +same time?</p> + +<p>5. When did Chopin first appear in public?</p> + +<p>6. What two works had he already composed +when he set out for Paris?</p> + +<p>7. Who were some of the people who welcomed +Chopin to Paris?</p> + +<p>8. Name some of the great cities in which he +played.</p> + +<p>9. What led Chopin to want to leave Paris?</p> + +<p>10. Why did he change his mind and remain +there?</p> + +<p>11. What great German composer discovered +Chopin to be a genius?</p> + +<p>12. Name some great writers and composers who +kept at work even though they were not in the best +of health.</p> + +<p>13. In what country was Grieg born?</p> + +<p>14. In what city was Mozart born?</p> + +<p>15. In what two countries did Handel live?</p> + +<p>16. What famous river flows by the City of Warsaw?</p> + +<p>17. Name some of the kinds of music that Chopin +composed?</p> + +<p>18. What music by Chopin have you heard?</p> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<p><span class="pagenum">[Pg 15]</span></p> + +<p class="h3">THE STORY OF FREDERIC CHOPIN</p> + +<p>Written by.......................................</p> + +<p>On date..........................................</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus19.png" width="400" height="530" alt="No. 19" title="No. 19" /> +</div> + +<hr class="hr2"/> + +<div class="tnote"> + +<p class="h3">Transcriber's Notes:</p> + +<hr /> + + + +<p>On page 6, a new paragraph was begun at "Berlioz was the only".</p> + +<p>On page 7, a quotation mark was added after "a true lover of music."</p> + +<p>On page 12, in example seven, the period was moved within the closing parenthesis.</p> + +<p>On page 14, the question mark at the end of question 17 ("Name some of +the kinds of music that Chopin composed?) was changed to a period.</p> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chopin, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHOPIN *** + +***** This file should be named 35013-h.htm or 35013-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/0/1/35013/ + +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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