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diff --git a/35128.txt b/35128.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba2d647 --- /dev/null +++ b/35128.txt @@ -0,0 +1,884 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wagner, 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: Wagner + The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: January 31, 2011 [EBook #35128] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAGNER *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team (including the Music +Team) at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + WAGNER + + + [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 MacDowell + Beethoven Mendelssohn + Brahms Mozart + Chopin Schubert + Grieg Schumann + Handel Tschaikowsky + Haydn Verdi + Liszt Wagner + + Printed in U. S. A. + + + + + [Illustration: No. 1] + + [Illustration: No. 12] + + [Illustration: No. 3] + + [Illustration: No. 9] + + [Illustration: No. 16] + + [Illustration: No. 14] + + [Illustration: No. 4] + + [Illustration: No. 6] + + [Illustration: No. 13] + + [Illustration: No. 11] + + [Illustration: No. 17] + + [Illustration: No. 2] + + [Illustration: No. 15] + + [Illustration: No. 18] + + [Illustration: No. 5] + + [Illustration: No. 10] + + [Illustration: No. 8] + + [Illustration: No. 7] + + + + + RICHARD WAGNER + + + The Story of the Boy + Who Wrote Little Plays + + + This Book was made by + + .......................... + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + + Copyright, 1918, by Theodore Presser Co. + British Copyright Secured + Printed in U. S. A. + + + + + [Illustration: No. 1 + + Cut the picture of Wagner from the picture sheet. + + Paste in here. + + Write the composer's name below and the dates also.] + + + BORN + + .................................. + + + DIED + + .................................. + + + + + The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays + + +A very odd house used to stand in the quaint old Saxon City of Leipzig. +This house was called the Red and White Lion. I suppose no one ever +really saw a lion that was red and white, but nevertheless that was the +name of the house. There, was born Richard Wagner, who was one day to +write the wonderful opera scenes of which we will soon read. + + [Illustration: No. 2 + WAGNER'S BIRTHPLACE] + +Richard Wagner's day of birth was May 22, 1813. That was more than a +century ago! More than twelve hundred months! + +Since that time, music has changed very greatly. When Wagner was born, +much of the music that was being written had to follow certain patterns +or models just as architects follow certain patterns in building a +house. Now the composer when he writes music feels a great deal freer as +he knows that he can make his own patterns,--that he is not held in by +any such hard laws as those which held back such composers as Mozart, +Bach, Haydn and Handel. It was Wagner who did much to set music free +from the old barriers. This does not mean that music to-day is better +than music that was written by Haydn and Beethoven. Indeed it often is +not nearly so good, but it is freer, less held down by rule. + + [Illustration: No. 3 + TANNHAEUSER] + +When Wagner wrote his first opera that had any success (Rienzi) he +followed the models of composers of the day, but when he came to write +operas that followed, such as Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin and Tannhaeuser, +he struck out in new and fresh paths which made him many enemies at +first and many friends later. + +As we read of a great man we must learn to see the world as it was in +his day. + +Today we think of the world as the home of our parents, of ourselves and +of our friends; as the world of Mr. Edison, Mr. Wilson and Mr. +Roosevelt. In the world of Wagner there was not one of these. + +Who were the great musicians when he was a boy? Well, here are some of +them. Can you tell one fact about each of the men whose pictures come +next? + + [Illustration: No. 4] + LISZT + + [Illustration: No. 5] + SCHUMANN + + [Illustration: No. 6] + VERDI + + [Illustration: No. 7] + CHOPIN + +Wagner's father died when he was only six months old, and the boy was +brought up by his mother and his step-father, who was very kind to him. +In one way Wagner was unlike most of the other great composers. He did +not show any talent for music until he was almost a man. All that he +thought of was writing plays. When he did study, he was so bright and +worked so hard that he learned in less than a year more than many learn +in a lifetime. Here is a picture of Wagner's mother, who cared for him +so tenderly. + + [Illustration: No. 8] + WAGNER'S MOTHER + +When we read the stories of Charles Dickens we make many friends. And +they are among the very best we ever have. There are Little Nell, Paul +Dombey, Sam Weller, Oliver Twist, and a host of others. + +Writers like Dickens bring all sorts of people before us. _But few +composers can do such a thing._ + +Yet there are some who do this, and one of the greatest is Richard +Wagner. In his operas a host of people live,--people as real and as +interesting as those in the stories of Charles Dickens. + +There is Walter, who sings the Prize Song in Die Meistersinger, and Eva, +whom he loves. And in the same opera there is Beckmesser, the fussy old +schoolmaster kind of a man. And Hans Sachs, the cobbler. + + [Illustration: No. 9] + SCENE FROM DIE MEISTERSINGER + +There is a lovely scene in the third act of this opera. We see a meadow +light and bright in the sunshine. A glistening river flows quietly +through it. Everywhere on the water there are boats. Scattered over the +meadow there are tents. Everybody is out for a holiday time. All is +lively and full of color and bright and cheery. Now there pass before us +the tradesmen singing in chorus. There are cobblers and carpenters led +by the town pipers. And every trade sings its own songs. + +Then comes the scene in which Walter and Beckmesser sing in contest. +Beckmesser begins. He stutters and stammers and struggles through his +song. And finally, like a school-boy who does not know his lesson, he +breaks down. + +Then Walter comes to sing the lovely _Prize Song_; a melody that just +sings itself into the heart of everyone. + + [Illustration: No. 10] + WALTER'S PRIZE SONG + +Do you wonder that with such lovely music Walter wins the contest and +the hand of Eva whom he loves? Jolly old Hans Sachs is so happy over it +all that he sings a rollicking song and everybody joins in with him as +the curtain goes down. + + [Illustration: No. 11] + HANS SACHS + +Nor was Wagner satisfied with making characters who were merely people +just like ourselves. (For Walter and Eva are people of our kind). But +there are in the operas by Richard Wagner, gods and goddesses, giants +and Rhine maidens, and Nibelungs. + +Many of them have strange names. These names are easy to remember +because they are strange: Wotan and Donner are gods. Freia and Erda are +goddesses. Fafner is a giant. Flosshilde is a Rhine daughter. Mime and +Alberich are Nibelungs. + + [Illustration: No. 12] + LOHENGRIN + +Oh, they are wonderful company these gods and goddesses, and others of +the company who tell their story and adventure in the operas of the +Nibelungen Ring. Here is Siegfried forging his Magic Sword Nothung. + + [Illustration: No. 13] + SIEGFRIED + +Now, as we have said, when we learn of so great a man we always wonder +what sort of a boy he was. Well, when this boy was nine years old he +went to a classical school. One of his teachers at least must have been +very fond of him, and he must have been fond of his teacher, for when +Richard Wagner was only thirteen years old he translated from Greek into +German twelve books of the Odyssey for this teacher. + + [Illustration: No. 14] + WAGNER AS A BOY + +"I intend to become a poet," he used to say. He read _Romeo and Juliet_ +in English. Then he wrote a play in which were _Hamlet_ and _King Lear_. +And there were forty-two other characters. All of these died or were +killed in the fourth act and were brought back as ghosts in the fifth! +He played the piano, too, and seems to have been quite as busy a boy as +he was a man. + +Of one composer's music he was very fond. This composer lived nearby and +passed the Wagner house almost every day. Richard always ran to the +window to watch him coming. This musician was the composer of _Der +Freischuetz_ and of _Oberon_. Can you guess his name? + +This composer's father was also a musician as well as a military man. + + [Illustration: No. 15] + WEBER + +Children will be glad to know that Wagner was very fond of animals. Here +he is with a picture of one of his dogs. His favorite dogs are buried in +the garden of his home at Bayreuth, where Wagner is also buried. + +Wagner called his home at Bayreuth "Wahnfried," which really means +"Fancy Free." + +It is beautifully located in the heart of the old town. + + [Illustration: No. 16] + WAGNER AND HIS DOG + +Later on the boy read about the contest of _Die Meistersinger_. He was +then sixteen. And he read, too, a poem called _Tannhaeuser_. He kept +these stories in mind until he became a man and then he wrote an opera +about each. + +Thus we see that we carry childhood thoughts into manhood. + + [Illustration: No. 17] + +Here is a list of the operas by Richard Wagner, with their names +pronounced:-- + + _The Fairies_ (1833). + _Das Liebesverbot_ (1836) leebes-fehr-bote. + _Rienzi_ (1842) ree-ent'-see. + _The Flying Dutchman_ (1842). + _Tannhaeuser_ (1845) tan'-hoy-ser. + _Lohengrin_ (1847) lo'-en-green. + _Das Rheingold_ (1869) rhine-gold. + _Die Walkuere_ (1870) dee val-kee-reh. + _Siegfried_ (1869) seeg'-freed. + _Tristan and Isolde_ (1865) e-sol'-deh. + _Die Meistersinger_ (1867). + _Die Goetterdaemmerung_ (1876) dee getter-day-meh-roongk. + _Parsifal_ (1882) par'-se-fal. + +Wagner also wrote symphonies and a few works for chorus and orchestra, +but he is so much greater as a composer of music dramas that he is known +mostly for his works for the stage. + + + SOME FACTS ABOUT RICHARD WAGNER + +Read these facts about Richard Wagner and try to write his story out of +them, using your own words. When your story is finished, ask your mother +or your teacher to read it. When you have made it, copy it on pages 14, +15 and 16. + +1. Richard Wagner wrote operas. + +2. He was born May 22nd, 1813. + +3. How long did Wagner study music? + +4. His operas, like the novels of Charles Dickens, are full of wonderful +characters. + +5. Besides people of every day kind there are gods and goddesses, and +giants, and other strange beings in his operas. + +6. As a boy Richard Wagner went to a classical school. + +7. He was always fond of music. + +8. He could translate Greek when he was only thirteen years old. + +9. Even as a little boy he said: I intend to become a poet. + +10. He wrote plays and he read the plays of Shakespeare in English. + +11. As a boy he studied the piano and was fond of the music of Von +Weber. + +12. Among the books that Richard Wagner read as a boy were the story of +_Die Meistersinger_ and the story of _Tannhaeuser_. + +13. He always kept these stories in mind. + +14. When he became a composer he wrote an opera upon each of these +stories. + +15. Tell something about Wagner and animals. + +16. Richard Wagner died at Venice on Feb. 13, 1883. + + + SOME QUESTIONS + +1. What kind of music did Richard Wagner compose? + +2. When was he born? + +3. Can you name some of the musicians who lived when Richard Wagner was +a boy? + +4. How many characters from the Dickens' novel can you name from memory? + +5. In what opera by Richard Wagner is _The Prize Song_? + +6. Who sings it? + +7. Tell what kind of a man Beckmesser is. + +8. Who was the jolly cobbler singer? + +9. What happened to Beckmesser in the contest with Walter? + +10. What sort of characters occur in the operas? + +11. See if you can describe each of these: Donner, Fafner, Mime, Freia, +Wotan. + +12. What is the name of the house in which Richard Wagner was born? + +13. Tell some of the things he did when he was a boy. + +14. Who composed _Oberon_? + +15. What other opera did this composer write? + +16. What should we remember about childhood thoughts? + + + + + THE STORY OF WAGNER + +Written by .................................. + +On date .................................. + +Write a short story about Wagner and copy it on these pages. + + [Illustration: No. 18] + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +On page 9, "Odessy" was replaced with "Odyssey". + +On page 11, "Die" and "Parsifal" were italicized. + +The music depicted in the illustration is not from Walter's Prize Song in Die Meistersinger, but is instead the opening of the overture to that opera. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wagner, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAGNER *** + +***** This file should be named 35128.txt or 35128.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/1/2/35128/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team (including the Music +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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