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  • Adventures of Richard Wagner
    Opal Wheeler
    At the age of four, Wilhelm Richard Wagner made his first impression on the theatrical world when he pounded on a bass drum and stopped the performance at the Dresden Playhouse-right in the midst of his stepfather’s lines. This ill-fated incident put a temporary stop to Richard’s nights backstage, and the punishment was almost more than exuberant little 'Dicker' could bear. No ...
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    19,03 €

  • Peter Tchaikovsky and the Nutcracker Ballet
    Opal Wheeler
    A great composer comes to life in this vivid, exciting story of Peter Tchaikovsky, a young man driven by his genius through the early years of his career and on to enviable success and world recognition. Peter's unhappy apprenticeship in law ended when he absentmindedly nibbled on and ruined an important legal document. If his family considered his failure a disgrace, to Pe...
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    18,37 €

  • Paganini, Master of Strings
    Opal Wheeler
    Written with warmth and understanding, the present book on Paganini begins with his unhappy childhood along the wharves in Genoa and carries him straight through the tempestuous years when great genius and poverty waged an endless battle, which genius finally won. The boy gave his first concert at eleven, and his success was immediate and brilliant.The later years, however, wer...
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    19,14 €

  • The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky
    Opal Wheeler
    Little Peter was born in the small mining town of Votkinsk, Russia, not far from the border of Asia. His father was a mine inspector. Miss Wheeler has shown sympathetically yet quite frankly what a nervous, unpredictable child Peter was and how his love for music, even as a very little boy, was almost greater than he could bear. Any sort of routine or application to work was im...
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    18,68 €

  • Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia
    Opal Wheeler / Sybil Deucher
    This is the first complete life of Bach ever written for children. Every important incident is mentioned and every detail of the story is true. It is filled with vivid descriptions of Bach’s childhood: how he sat up many nights and copied music by the light of the moon, and how he walked two hundred miles to a choir school at Lüneburg. Then his adult life: how he helped his wif...
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    18,77 €

  • Mozart, The Wonder Boy
    Opal Wheeler / Sybil Deucher
    "Here, at last, is the new edition of Mozart, The Wonder Boy, that you have wanted for such a long time. The first book of Mozart, The Wonder Boy, had some delightful music, but you wanted still more, and here it is - thirty-five full pages of Mozart music that you will find at the end of the story. And now what a joyous time you will have as you give yourself a beautiful conce...
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    18,79 €

  • Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends
    Opal Wheeler / Sybil Deucher
    This book is about the brilliant young Schubert, his merry friends, and their pranks and escapades, in most of which Franz is the hero.One of the most interesting stories in the book is the new light that is shed on the history of the Unfinished Symphony. It remained unfinished, not because of poverty, illness and discouragement, or because of the composer’s early death. The re...
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    18,74 €

  • Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Later Years
    Christine Price / Opal Wheeler
    Chopin remembered Vienna as the city where he had made an instant success with his music, so when, after years at home in Warsaw, he returned to Vienna he was heartsick to find only a cool welcome awaiting him. Vienna wanted to dance and sing and forget war...and Poland was on the brink of war.In Paris, however, Chopin found himself warmly welcomed; his concerts became the vogu...
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    19,10 €

  • Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years
    Opal Wheeler
    Frederic Chopin, celebrated pianist and probably the greatest composer for the piano the world has ever known, was born in a little cottage in Poland on the estate of Count Skarbek, whose children were tutored by his father, Nicolas Chopin.The child loved music from babyhood and when the family moved to Warsaw a few years after his birth, he was placed under the tutelage of the...
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    19,13 €

  • Handel at the Court of Kings
    Opal Wheeler
    With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director.Handel’s strange boyhood, clouded by the fact that his father did not want him to become a musician, and the later years when, thanks ...
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    19,22 €

  • Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff
    Opal Wheeler
    From the time he was a little boy, playing with his beloved cat, Ziff, in his home village in Saxony, until he became the famous composer, friend of Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Liszt, Robert Schumann lived happily and pleasantly. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he had few major problems to overcome. His work, his family life, all brought him the reward of renown and joy. Even t...
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    19,25 €