In our own country there lived in Mozart's lifetime Benjamin Franklin and three Presidents of the United States—George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

I wonder if Washington ever heard of Mozart?

Perhaps we can best keep all these names together by looking at this page now and again.

1706Benjamin Franklin was born.
1732Washington and Haydn were born.
1736Patrick Henry was born.
1743Thomas Jefferson was born.
1750Bach died.
1756WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART was born.
1759Handel died
1770Beethoven was born.
1771Walter Scott was born.
1790Franklin died.
1791Mozart died.
1809Joseph Haydn died.

Isn't it fine to think of Mozart writing so much music, so many operas, symphonies and sonatas; traveling so much, meeting so many people and never being spoiled by it all.

While he wrote many very great pieces of music, here is something he composed when he was five years old. He made up the pieces at the piano and his father wrote them down note for note in a little copy book.

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FACTS ABOUT MOZART.

Read these facts about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and try to write his story out of them, using your own words. When your story is finished, ask your mother or your teacher to read it. When you have made it, copy it on pages 14, 15 and 16.