Bach Grieg Mozart Beethoven Handel Nevin Brahms Haydn Schubert Chopin Liszt Schumann Dvorak MacDowell Tschaikowsky Foster Mendelssohn Verdi Wagner [Illustration: No. 1] [Illustration: No. 5] [Illustration: No. 12] [Illustration: No. 3] [Illustration: No. 13] [Illustration: No. 15] [Illustration: No. 7] [Illustration: No. 8] [Illustration: No. 9] [Illustration: No. 2] [Illustration: No. 11] [Illustration: No. 10] [Illustration: No. 14] [Illustration: No. 4] [Illustration: No. 6] Handel The Story of a Little Boy Who Practiced in an Attic This Book was made by _____________________ Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut Str. Copyright, 1916, by THEO. PRESSER CO. Printed in U.S.A. [Illustration: No. 1 Cut the picture of Handel from the sheet of pictures. Paste in here. Write the composer's name below and the dates also.] .................................. BORN .................................. DIED .................................. The Story of a Little Boy Who Practiced in an Attic When we read about the great composers we learn that they come from all kinds of families. Bach's parents were poor. Mendelssohn's were rich. Schubert's father was a schoolmaster. Mozart's father was a violinist. The story which you are to read in this book and then write out in your own words is about a boy whose parents were neither well-to-do nor well known. His name is George Frederick Handel. In Germany where Handel was born his name was Georg Friedrich Haendel (pronounced Gay-org Freed-riesh Hayn-del). But the great composer spent so much of his life in England that people now use the English form of his name. [Illustration: No. 2 HANDEL'S BIRTHPLACE.] Look at this queer old house where the great master was born.