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 we could gather together some American boys who were alive at that same time, here are some we could have found:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote for children, Tanglewood Tales and the Wonder Book.
HAWTHORNE.