Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant

Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant

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This is a simple, inspiring children's biography of the great musician Haydn. 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. "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. His parents watched the boy drawing one stick slowly across the other as he played so seriously, keeping perfect time."

Then one day he went to live with his cousin in a town near Vienna, close by the river Danube. There he learned to read music and sing. Once when the drummer was too sick to march in a procession, little Franz Joseph was asked to take his place. 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. 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.

(Franz) Joseph Haydn  (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau, Austria.  Most of his life was spent in Vienna where wealthy families employed him as Music Director for their orchestras and/or ensembles.  He wrote concertos, masses, operas, string quartet pieces, and symphonies. During his lifetime he was called the "Father of the Symphony." His most famous works are the "Farewell Symphony," the "Surprise Symphony," and the "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" which was used as the national anthem for both Austria and Germany.

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Book Title Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant
Publisher: Zeezok Pub/Book Peddler
This is a simple, inspiring children's biography of the great musician Haydn. 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. "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. His parents watched the boy drawing one stick slowly across the other as he played so seriously, keeping perfect time."

Then one day he went to live with his cousin in a town near Vienna, close by the river Danube. There he learned to read music and sing. Once when the drummer was too sick to march in a procession, little Franz Joseph was asked to take his place. 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. 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.

(Franz) Joseph Haydn  (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau, Austria.  Most of his life was spent in Vienna where wealthy families employed him as Music Director for their orchestras and/or ensembles.  He wrote concertos, masses, operas, string quartet pieces, and symphonies. During his lifetime he was called the "Father of the Symphony." His most famous works are the "Farewell Symphony," the "Surprise Symphony," and the "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" which was used as the national anthem for both Austria and Germany.