2. He was a few weeks younger than George Washington.
3. As a little boy he loved to hear his father and mother sing.
4. While they sang he played on a "make-believe" violin, of two sticks.
5. He left home at the age of six and never lived there again.
6. First he became a choir-boy at Hainburg.
7. When he was eight years old he entered St. Stephen's in Vienna as a chorister.
8. After he left St. Stephen's he worked hard for many years. Many people whom he met in this time helped him.
9. Among his friends of this period were: Metastasio, Porpora, Gluck, Mozart and his father, and Beethoven.
10. For a time he was Beethoven's teacher.
11. He spent a great part of his life in the Esterhazy family.