The Story of Mozart (Signature Books series).

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap, 1955.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with the Signature series device on the front cover and the laurel leaf devices on the spine; the top edge tint is red; there are stains on the reverse side of the front endpaper from a small bookplate; otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Glossary, list of recordings. Endpapers show 'Great Events in the Life'. Description: Illustrated with drawings by Eric M Simon. This is volume number 34 in the Signature Books series for young readers. This series for young readers, under the general editorship of Enid Lamonte Meadowcroft, provides easy to read, exciting stories based upon the lives of historical figures. ''From the time Mozart was three he was playing a musical instrument and from the time he was five he was composing. He was truly a prodigy. Mozart was six when he and his sister set out to perform on the clavier in the court of the Emperor of Austria. When Mozart grew up, however, it was difficult for him to make a living. People were not so enchanted by the talent of the man as they had been by that of the child. Added to this, he never had any idea about money and was as gay and irresponsible as when he was a small boy. But music poured forth from him year after year, and, though he died poor and ill at the early age of thirty-six, he left the world one of its great musical heritages.'' Helen L Kaufmann is the author of another of two other books in this series -- the stories of Beethoven and Haydn.