Bach Grieg Mozart Beethoven Handel Nevin Brahms Haydn Schubert Chopin Liszt Schumann Dvorak MacDowell Tschaikowsky Foster Mendelssohn Verdi Wagner [Illustration: No. 1] [Illustration: No. 13] [Illustration: No. 8] [Illustration: No. 4] [Illustration: No. 5] [Illustration: No. 3] [Illustration: No. 6] [Illustration: No. 9] [Illustration: No. 7] [Illustration: No. 10] [Illustration: No. 14] [Illustration: No. 15] [Illustration: No. 16] [Illustration: No. 12] [Illustration: No. 11] BEETHOVEN The Story of a Little Boy Who Was Forced to Practice This Book was made by .......................... Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut Str. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO. British Copyright Secured Printed in U. S. A. [Illustration] BORN .................................. DIED .................................. The Story of a Little Boy who was Forced to Practice Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely town of Bonn, on the River Rhine, December 16, 1770. The house in which he spent his boyhood is still standing. We see in the picture what a pretty, homelike place the house and the yard must have been. It is now the Beethoven House, or Museum, filled with mementos of the great composer. There you may see music pages written by him, letters, medals, instruments; even his ear trumpet is there. [Illustration: THE BEETHOVEN HOUSE] Beethoven's father was a singer at the Chapel of the Elector. He was not a good father, for he did not care to work even enough to make his family comfortable. But the mother loved her boy with all her heart, as we shall see. [Illustration: No. 3 BEETHOVEN'S FATHER]