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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.

THE HAPPY FARMER. Listen

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.

NIELS GADE.

This is a picture of the house in Zwickau, Germany, where Robert Schumann was born.

SCHUMANN'S BIRTHPLACE.

Schumann was a strong healthy youth who had many friends and loved life.

SCHUMANN AS A YOUTH.

What do you think the Father and Mother of Robert Schumann wanted him to be when he was grown up?

A lawyer!

Robert was the youngest of five children, full of fun and up to all kinds of games. He went to school and became especially fond of reading plays.

He also loved to write little plays and to act them out on the stage that his Father had built for him in his room. So he and his companions could give their plays in their own theatre.

All the while Robert was taking piano lessons.

Just before he entered the High School he heard a pianist who played so beautifully that he made up his mind that he would become a musician.

The pianist whose playing gave him this thought is one whose name you will know better and better as you get older.

IGNACE MOSCHELES.

There was lots of music making in the Schumann home, for Robert and all his companions played and sang. And besides that, he composed music for them.

It must have been a pleasant picture to see all these German boys coming together to make music. If