PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) THE CHILD MUSICIAN

GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL (1685-1759) THE WONDER CHILD

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) THE CHILD MOZART

FRANCIS JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809) THE CHOIR BOY

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) EARLY LIFE OF BEETHOVEN

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

FREDERICK CHOPIN (1809-1849) A POLISH LAD WHO BECAME FAMOUS

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) BOYHOOD OF SCHUMANN

FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) EARLY LIFE OF WAGNER

VOCABULARY

Transcriber's Notes

1. The Anglicized names of the various composers retained as in the original.
2. This book uses special characters with accents to indicate pronunciations in the vocabulary: ā ē ī ū ō o͞o (macron); ă ĕ ĭ ŭ ŏ o͝o (breve); Ä (dieresis above), a̤ (dieresis below), ȧ (dot), ẽ (tilde). If some characters do not display properly, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Please make sure that the browser's "character set" or "file encoding" is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser's default font.
3. a̤ and ŭ used in the vocabulary had no examples of pronunciation. These have been retained as in the original.
4. For accessibility, the music snippets contain lyrics in the alt-text if available, and are linked to music midi files.
5. List of illustrations not in the original has been provided for your convenience; for accessibility, brief descriptions of the images are provided in the alt-text.
6. On page 141, "Wolgang" has been corrected to "Wolfgang".