When your story is done, and you have improved it all you can, copy it in pages 14, 15, and 16 of this book. 1. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, in Hungary. 2. His birthday is October 22, 1811. 3. His father was his first teacher. 4. He studied piano in Vienna with Carl Czerny. 5. Then he went to Paris. 6. Among Liszt's boyhood friends were Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. 7. After many years as a concert pianist, Liszt became opera conductor at Weimar. 8. He brought out many of the operas of Richard Wagner. 9. He was a great teacher of piano, and many people from Europe and from the United States studied with him. 10. He composed many fine works. 11. Among them are arrangements of many of Schubert's songs. 12. Liszt died in Rome in 1886. He was seventy-five years old. 13. Liszt wrote the life of his friend Frederic Chopin. 14. It has been said that no musician ever lived who did so much for others as Franz Liszt. * * * * * SOME QUESTIONS. 1. When and where was Franz Liszt born? 2. Who was his first teacher? 3. What was his father's occupation? In what family did he live? 4. Where was his mother born? 5. With whom did Franz study piano in Vienna? 6. What famous musician did he meet in Vienna? 7. Name two or three people whom he met in Paris. 8. What great composer of opera did he assist? 9. Name some operas that Liszt produced at Weimar. 10. In what Italian city did Liszt live? 11. Whose songs did he arrange for piano? 12. What great musician's life was written by Franz Liszt? 13. When and where did Franz Liszt die? THE STORY OF FRANZ LISZT Written by ............................................. On (date) ............................................. [Illustration: No. 22] Transcriber's Notes: This book has inconsistencies in the names, sometimes anglicizing names and sometimes not. These inconsistencies were not corrected. Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Passages in small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. On page 16, a comma was added after "everybody".