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diff --git a/35013.txt b/35013.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b301319 --- /dev/null +++ b/35013.txt @@ -0,0 +1,940 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chopin, 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: 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: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHOPIN *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + CHOPIN + + [Illustration] + + _By_ + THOMAS TAPPER + + THEODORE PRESSER CO. + 1712 CHESTNUT STREET + .PHILADELPHIA. + + + + + [Illustration] + + Directions for Binding + + +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. + + =THEO. PRESSER CO., Pub's., Phila., Pa.= + + + + + HOW TO USE THIS BOOK + + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + * * * * * + +This series of the Child's Own Book of Great Musicians includes at +present a book on each of the following: + + Bach Grieg Mozart + Beethoven Handel Nevin + Brahms Haydn Schubert + Chopin Liszt Schumann + Dvorak MacDowell Tschaikowsky + Foster Mendelssohn Verdi + Wagner + + + + + [Illustration: No. 4] + + [Illustration: No. 11] + + [Illustration: No. 2] + + [Illustration: No. 15] + + [Illustration: No. 16] + + [Illustration: No. 17] + + [Illustration: No. 18] + + [Illustration: No. 19] + + [Illustration: No. 1] + + [Illustration: No. 3] + + [Illustration: No. 10] + + [Illustration: No. 13] + + [Illustration: No. 14] + + [Illustration: No. 9] + + [Illustration: No. 12] + + [Illustration: No. 5] + + [Illustration: No. 6] + + [Illustration: No. 7] + + [Illustration: No. 8] + + + + + Frederic Francois Chopin + + The Story of the Boy Who + Made Beautiful Melodies + + + This Book was made by + + _____________________ + + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + + COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO. + + + + + [Illustration: 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.] + + + BORN + + + .................................. + + + DIED + + + .................................. + + + + + The Story of the Boy who Made Beautiful Melodies + +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 Francois +Chopin. + +It will be pleasant to learn from time to time something about him. We +should like, for example, to know: + +In what country he was born. + +In what places he lived. + +What kinds of music he composed. + +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. + + [Illustration 2: CHOPIN'S BIRTHPLACE] + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + + [Illustration 3: F. MENDELSSOHN] + +Here is a picture of little Chopin playing for a group of boyhood +friends. + + [Illustration 4: LITTLE CHOPIN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS] + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +Let us always think of these men who knew each other well as a family. + + [Illustration 5: LISZT] + + [Illustration 6: BERLIOZ] + + [Illustration 7: MEYERBEER] + + [Illustration 8: HEINE] + + [Illustration 9: CHOPIN] + +Liszt was a great pianist. + +Berlioz was a famous composer for the orchestra. + +Meyerbeer was best known as an operatic composer. + +Heine was a great poet whose verses were set to music by many song +composers. + +Berlioz was the only one of the group who was born in France. + +During his boyhood Chopin played much in public, journeying to some of +the great cities of Europe, among them Vienna, Berlin, and Munich. + +Therefore, when he played in Paris it was as an artist. Here, as at +home, he charmed everyone by the beauty of his music and the loveliness +of his touch. + +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. + + [Illustration 10: CHOPIN'S HAND] + +Indeed, Chopin's music is of just these qualities. It is strong in its +nobility, delicate in its sentiment. + +One would think that to arrive in Paris and to be welcomed by the great +ones would make everything easy. + +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. + +Indeed, it was all so discouraging that he made up his mind to return to +his beloved Poland. + +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. + +But no, he was going home. + +"But," said this friend, "first come with me to visit a true lover of +music." + +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. + +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. + + [Illustration 11: CHOPIN PLAYING FOR THE PRINCE] + +Do you wonder what kind of a man the little Polish boy became after he +found success in Paris? + +One person said about him: + +"Chopin talks little, and rarely about music. But when he does speak of +music one must listen to him." + +Another said: + +"He is reserved and quiet, especially among strangers, but among his +friends he is witty and full of sly humor." + +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. + +Music was Chopin's true speech. The world soon learned to love what he +said in it. And it always will love it. + +See how beautifully he wrote his music. + + [Illustration 12: CHOPIN'S AUTOGRAPH] + +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. + +The post carried to Schumann a copy of Chopin's first printed music. +This was a theme taken from Mozart's Opera _Don Juan_, which Chopin +arranged with variations for the piano. + +When Schumann played it to his friends everyone exclaimed: "How +beautiful it is!" + +Then someone said: + +"Chopin--I never heard the name. Who can he be?" + + [Illustration 13: R. SCHUMANN] + +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! + +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. + +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. + + [Illustration 14: CHOPIN DREAMING OF POLAND] + +Once he went to England and to Scotland. He played in London and was +highly praised for the beautiful way he performed his own music. + +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. + +Many men, who would have given up everything had they not been brave, +have worked right on through illness. + +Milton was blind, but he dictated _Paradise Lost_ to his daughter. + +Beethoven was deaf, but he did not give up composing. + +Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the lovely _Child's Garden of Verses_, +was ill all his life, but he kept on writing. Grieg was probably never +well all his life, but he never gave up. + + [Illustration 15: MILTON] + + [Illustration 16: BEETHOVEN] + + [Illustration 17: STEVENSON] + + [Illustration 18: GRIEG] + +Have you ever thought that the beautiful ideas of great men sometimes +outlive famous cities? + +What a lot of cities and countries we must visit in our thoughts, to see +the great composers at their work. For example-- + +1. Grieg belongs to Norway. + +2. Chopin to Warsaw and Paris. + +3. Schubert to Vienna in Austria. + +4. Bach to Thuringia in Saxony, Germany. + +5. Handel to Germany and England. + +6. Haydn to Hungary. + +7. Beethoven to Germany and Vienna. (He was born at Bonn on the Rhine.) + +8. Schumann to Germany. + +9. Mendelssohn to Hamburg and Berlin, Germany. + +10. Mozart to Salzburg and Vienna in Austria. + +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. + + + SOME FACTS ABOUT CHOPIN + +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. + +1. Frederic Francois Chopin was born in Poland. + +2. His birthday was March 1, 1809. + +3. He spent most of his life in the two cities of Warsaw and Paris. + +4. His father was French; his mother Polish. + +5. At the age of nine he made his first public appearance as a pianist. + +6. Many distinguished people welcomed him to Paris. + +7. Among them were Liszt, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Heine. + +8. His first weeks in Paris were discouraging; his first concert poorly +attended. + +9. This tempted him to return to Poland. + +10. But his friends urged him to remain in Paris. + +11. Finally success came. + +12. Chopin was described as one who spoke little, especially among +strangers. + +13. Some of the music forms which he wrote are the nocturne, waltz, +mazurka, impromptu, concerto, polonaise, etude. + +14. Schumann was one of the first to declare Chopin a genius. + +15. Chopin worked hard all his life. + +16. But in his last years he suffered from ill-health. + +17. Like Milton, Beethoven, Stevenson and Grieg, he kept on with his +work, in spite of his illness. + +18. Chopin once went to England and Scotland. + +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. + + + SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT CHOPIN + +1. In what country was Chopin born? + +2. In what two great cities did he live? + +3. In what year was Chopin born? + +4. What other composer was born about the same time? + +5. When did Chopin first appear in public? + +6. What two works had he already composed when he set out for Paris? + +7. Who were some of the people who welcomed Chopin to Paris? + +8. Name some of the great cities in which he played. + +9. What led Chopin to want to leave Paris? + +10. Why did he change his mind and remain there? + +11. What great German composer discovered Chopin to be a genius? + +12. Name some great writers and composers who kept at work even though +they were not in the best of health. + +13. In what country was Grieg born? + +14. In what city was Mozart born? + +15. In what two countries did Handel live? + +16. What famous river flows by the City of Warsaw? + +17. Name some of the kinds of music that Chopin composed. + +18. What music by Chopin have you heard? + + + THE STORY OF FREDERIC CHOPIN + +Written by............................. + +On (date)............................. + + [Illustration: No. 19] + + + + + Transcriber's Notes: + +Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_. + +Passages in bold are indicated by =equal signs=. + +Passages in small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. + +In the list of composers in the instructions on how to use the book, the +"r with a caron" in the name Dvorak was replaced with a regular "r". + +On page 6, a new paragraph was begun at "Berlioz was the only". + +On page 7, a quotation mark was added after "a true lover of music." + +On page 12, in example seven, the period was moved within the closing +parenthesis. + +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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chopin, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHOPIN *** + +***** This file should be named 35013.txt or 35013.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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