This simple, inspiring children\'s biography of the great musician Haydn will win its way into the hearts of all music-loving children.
It has the great value of being instructive, cultural and inspiring, as well as recreational..
For boys and girls, from 8 to 12 years of age, this book is particularly recommended.
Such was the musical beginning of the boy who later played before kings in palaces, and who has left us some of the most beautiful music ever written.
So he practiced all day on the meal barrel with a cloth tied over the top...until he could play the part without a single mistake.
Once when the drummer was too sick to march in a procession, Little Franz Joseph was asked to take his place.
There he learned to read music and sing.
Then one day he went to live with his cousin in a town near Vienna, close by the river Danube.
His parents watched the boy drawing one stick slowly across the other as he played so seriously, keeping perfect time.
Little Sepperl [as the child Franz Joseph Haydn was called] always sat on a wooden stool near his father and with two smooth pieces of wood held firmly in his hands, played his own make-believe violin.
This story, like all the stories of the great composers by Wheeler and Deucher, will win its way into the hearts of all music-loving children; for it, too, is told with all the understanding, sympathy and appreciation that its two inspired authors have to give.
This is a simple, inspiring children\'s biography of the great musician Haydn.
The text has the great value of being instructive, cultural, and inspiring.
This simple, inspiring children\'s biography of the great musician Haydn will win its way into the hearts of all music-loving children
