Transcriber's Notes
- The Anglicized names of the various composers retained as in the original.
- 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.
- a̤ and ŭ used in the vocabulary had no examples of pronunciation. These have been retained as in the original.
- For accessibility, the music snippets contain lyrics in the alt-text if available, and are linked to music midi files.
- 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.
- On page 141, "Wolgang" has been corrected to "Wolfgang".
STORIES OF
GREAT MUSICIANS
BY
KATHRINE LOIS SCOBEY
AND
OLIVE BROWN HORNE
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- NEW YORK
- CINCINNATI
- CHICAGO
Copyright, 1905, by
KATHRINE LOIS SCOBEY and OLIVE BROWN HORNE.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.
GREAT MUSICIANS.
W. P. 22
PREFACE
That the purpose of the public schools is the training of children for ahigher citizenship, a more extensive helpfulness in affairs pertainingto the common good, no one questions; but we need expect nomanifestation of a greater integrity, unless lofty ideals are keptconstantly before them. Neither painter nor sculptor can produce agreater expression of beauty than that which has been built up in hisown consciousness; no individual can produce a greater expression ofmanhood or womanhood than that which he holds in his own mind. It isimportant, therefore, that a high standard be set for the children inour schools to-day.
The question then arises as to how this result may be attained.Educators agree that the study of biography is a potent factor in theachievement of this end. A new field for biographical study is found inthe lives of the great musicians, who furnish many examples of untiringeffort and persistent endeavor, for almost without exception their lives repeat the oft-stated but none too often emphasized verity that successcomes only to him who earns success.
We trust that this little volume may aid the many who are striving toenrich the thought concepts of the children under their care.
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