Bach Grieg Mozart Beethoven Handel Nevin Brahms Haydn Schubert Chopin Liszt Schumann Dvorak MacDowell Tschaikowsky Foster Mendelssohn Verdi Wagner [Illustration: Transcriber's note: First page of illustrations: 1, 14, 15, 12, 11, 10, 13, 6] [Illustration: Transcriber's note: Second page of illustrations: 7, 8, 16, 9, 5, 3, 4, 2] Robt. Schumann The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music * * * * * Made up into a Book by ........................................................ * * * * * Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut Str. Copyright. 1916, by THEO. PRESSER CO. Printed in the U.S.A. [Illustration: No. 1 Cut the picture of Schumann from the sheet of pictures. Paste in here. Write the composer's name below and the dates also.] ........................................................ BORN ........................................................ DIED ........................................................ The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music. When Robert Schumann was a boy he used to amuse his friends by playing their pictures on the piano. He could make the music imitate the person. One day he said to them: This is the way the farmer walks when he comes home singing from his work. [Illustration: No. 2 THE HAPPY FARMER.] Some day you will be able to play a lot of pieces by Schumann that picture the pleasantest things so clearly that you can see them very plainly indeed. In one of his books there is a music picture of a boy riding a rocking horse. Another of a little girl falling asleep. _A March for Little Soldiers._ (That is, make-believes.) And then there are _Sitting by the Fireside_, _What they Sing in Church_, and a piece the first four notes of which spell the name of a composer who was a good friend of Schumann's. This composer came from Denmark. [Illustration: No. 3 NIELS GADE.]