Bach Mendelssohn Beethoven Mozart Chopin Schubert Grieg Schumann Handel Verdi Haydn Wagner Liszt Printed in the U.S.A. [Illustration: No. 1] [Illustration: No. 7] [Illustration: No. 10] [Illustration: No. 6] [Illustration: No. 11] [Illustration: No. 3] [Illustration: No. 2] [Illustration: No. 13] [Illustration: No. 8] [Illustration: No. 9] [Illustration: No. 15] [Illustration: No. 12] [Illustration: No. 4] [Illustration: No. 14] [Illustration: No. 5] VERDI The Story of the Little Boy Who Loved the Hand Organ This Book was made by _____________________ Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut Str. Copyright 1919, by THEO. PRESSER CO.--British Copyright Secured Printed in U. S. A. [Illustration: No. 1 Cut the picture of Verdi from the sheet of pictures. Paste in here. Write the composer's name below and the dates also.] BORN .................................. DIED .................................. Giuseppe Verdi The picture on this page is of the house wherein a great composer was born. Of course, one is not born a great composer. He has to become that. So, at the moment this story begins there is, within this house, a little boy quite like any other boy. He loved to play and to make a noise and to have a good time. But most of all--what do you think he loved? A hand organ. [Illustration: No. 2 VERDI'S BIRTHPLACE] Whenever the organ man came into the village of Roncole, in Italy (where Verdi was born, October 10, 1813), he could not be kept indoors. But he followed the wonderful organ and the wonderful man who played it, all day long, as happy as he could be.