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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: Schumann + The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: March 17, 2011 [EBook #35596] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCHUMANN *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + SCHUMANN + + + [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 + Dvorák MacDowell Tschaikowsky + Foster Mendelssohn Verdi + Wagner + + + + + [Illustration: Transcriber's note: + First page of illustrations: 1, 14, 15, 12, 11, 10, 13, 6] + + + + + [Illustration: Transcriber's note: + Second page of illustrations: 7, 8, 16, 9, 5, 3, 4, 2] + + + + + Robt. Schumann + + + The Story of the Boy Who + Made Pictures in Music + + + * * * * * + + + Made up into a Book by + + + ........................................................ + + + * * * * * + + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + + Copyright. 1916, by THEO. PRESSER CO. + Printed in the U.S.A. + + + + + [Illustration: No. 1 + + Cut the picture of Schumann + from the sheet of pictures. + Paste in here. + Write the composer's name + below and the dates also.] + + + ........................................................ + BORN + + + ........................................................ + DIED + + + ........................................................ + + + + + The Story of the Boy Who Made + Pictures in Music. + + +When Robert Schumann was a boy he used to amuse his friends by playing +their pictures on the piano. He could make the music imitate the person. + +One day he said to them: This is the way the farmer walks when he comes +home singing from his work. + + [Illustration: No. 2 + THE HAPPY FARMER.] + +Some day you will be able to play a lot of pieces by Schumann that +picture the pleasantest things so clearly that you can see them very +plainly indeed. In one of his books there is a music picture of a boy +riding a rocking horse. + +Another of a little girl falling asleep. + +_A March for Little Soldiers._ (That is, make-believes.) + +And then there are _Sitting by the Fireside_, _What they Sing in +Church_, and a piece the first four notes of which spell the name of a +composer who was a good friend of Schumann's. + +This composer came from Denmark. + + [Illustration: No. 3 + NIELS GADE.] + +This is a picture of the house in Zwickau, Germany, where Robert +Schumann was born. + + [Illustration: No. 4 + SCHUMANN'S BIRTHPLACE.] + +Schumann was a strong healthy youth who had many friends and loved life. + + [Illustration: No. 5 + SCHUMANN AS A YOUTH.] + +What do you think the Father and Mother of Robert Schumann wanted him to +be when he was grown up? + +A lawyer! + +Robert was the youngest of five children, full of fun and up to all +kinds of games. He went to school and became especially fond of reading +plays. + +He also loved to write little plays and to act them out on the stage +that his Father had built for him in his room. So he and his companions +could give their plays in their own theatre. + +All the while Robert was taking piano lessons. + +Just before he entered the High School he heard a pianist who played so +beautifully that he made up his mind that he would become a musician. + +The pianist whose playing gave him this thought is one whose name you +will know better and better as you get older. + + [Illustration: No. 6 + IGNACE MOSCHELES.] + +There was lots of music making in the Schumann home, for Robert and all +his companions played and sang. And besides that, he composed music for +them. + +It must have been a pleasant picture to see all these German boys coming +together to make music. If we could gather together some American boys +who were alive at that same time, here are some we could have found: + +Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote for children, _Tanglewood Tales_ and the +_Wonder Book_. + + [Illustration: No. 7 + HAWTHORNE.] + +Then there was Longfellow, who was born in Portland, Maine. How many of +his poems do you know besides _Hiawatha_? + + [Illustration: No. 8 + LONGFELLOW.] + +And then we must not forget Whittier, who wrote many lovely poems. One +was about a little girl who spelled the word that her companion missed +in school and so she went above him in the class. + + [Illustration: No. 9 + WHITTIER.] + +And still there was another little boy only a year older than Robert +Schumann. He was born in a cabin. + + [Illustration: No. 10 + LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE.] + +This boy's name, as you can guess, was Abraham Lincoln. + + [Illustration: No. 11 + ABRAHAM LINCOLN.] + +So when you think of Robert Schumann, let us also think of Hawthorne, +Longfellow, Whittier, and Lincoln. + +They were all doing their best, even as boys, to be useful. + +Well, after all, Robert Schumann did not become a lawyer. He studied +music very hard. His teacher was Frederick Wieck. His teacher's +daughter, Clara Wieck, played the piano very beautifully. + + [Illustration: No. 12 + CLARA WIECK.] + +Papa Wieck, as he was called, was not very kind to Robert Schumann when +the young man confessed that he and Clara loved one another and wished +to marry. + + [Illustration: No. 13 + FRIEDRICH WIECK.] + +But after a while it all turned out happily and they were married. So +Clara Wieck became Clara Schumann. + +Here is a picture of them seated together. + + [Illustration: No. 14 + ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN.] + +In the sixteen years that Robert Schumann lived after he and Clara Wieck +were married he composed lots of music for the piano, besides songs, +symphonies, and other kinds of compositions. + +He was a teacher in the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his friends were +Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and many others. + +Schumann is best known as a composer of music, although he was also a +teacher, a conductor, and a writer upon musical subjects. For many years +he was the head of a musical newspaper, which is remembered to this day +because of the great work he did in helping people to understand new +music and find out new composers. When he was a very young man Schumann +wanted to become a pianist, but he unfortunately used a machine that he +thought was going to help him play better. It hurt his hand so that he +was never able to play well again. Poor Schumann went out of his mind in +his last years, and died insane, July 29, 1856. + + [Illustration: No. 15 + CLARA SCHUMANN.] + +Clara Schumann lived forty years after Robert Schumann died. She was the +teacher of many students, some of whom traveled from America to study +with her. She, too, was a composer and a concert pianist who played in +public from the time she was ten years of age. + + + + + FACTS ABOUT ROBERT SCHUMANN. + + +1. Robert Schumann was born at Zwickau, in Saxony, Germany, on June 8, +1810. + +2. When Schumann was nine years old he heard the great pianist Ignaz +Moscheles play and resolved to become a great pianist. + +3. When Schumann was a youth he showed a gift for writing poetry. + +4. Schumann's father was a successful book-seller. + +5. All through his life Schumann was a great lover of the writings of +the German author, Jean Paul (whose full name was Jean Paul Richter). +Much of his music shows his high regard for that writer of fairy +stories. + +6. Schumann was twenty-one years old when he injured his hand and +learned that therefore he could not hope to be a pianist. It was then +that he made up his mind to be a composer. + +7. Schumann had enough means to live in comfort. He was not poor, as +were Mozart, Schubert, and some others. + +8. Robert and Clara Schumann had eight children, and some of Schumann's +best music was written to interest his children. + +9. Schumann died July 29, 1856. + + + + + SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ROBERT SCHUMANN. + + +When you can answer them, try to write the Story of Schumann, to be +copied on pages 14, 15, 16. + +1. In what country was Schumann born? + +2. Can you name some pieces for the piano composed by Schumann? + +3. What did he write when he was a little boy? + +4. What great pianist did Robert hear when a boy? + +5. Name some famous Americans who were boys when Robert was going to +school. + +6. Who wrote Hiawatha? Tanglewood Tales? + +7. With whom did Robert Schumann study the piano? + +8. Whom did Robert Schumann marry? + +9. Tell what you know about her. + +10. Where did Schumann teach? + +11. Mention some of his friends. + +12. What does the composer picture for us in the "Happy Farmer?" + +13. Whose name is spelled by these notes? + + [Illustration] + +14. In what year was Schumann born? + +15. Through what was Schumann best known? + +16. How did he help people find new composers? + +17. What misfortune came to Schumann late in life? + + + + + THE STORY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN. + + Written by................... + + On (date).................... + + [Illustration: No. 16] + + + + + Transcriber's Notes: + +This book has inconsistencies in the names, sometimes anglicizing names +and sometimes not. + +Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. + +Passages in bold were 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 hácek" in the name Dvorák was replaced with a regular "r". + +On page 12, "as was Mozart" was replaced with "as were Mozart". + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Schumann, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCHUMANN *** + +***** This file should be named 35596-8.txt or 35596-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/5/9/35596/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland 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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