A Jewel of Music History

I recently completed a move to a new city and in the process found myself digging through boxes of family artifacts. Mixed with the photos was a book of wonders for me.

My great grandfather was a school teacher and superintendent of a very small rural community school in Iowa back in the early 1900's. Among the many artifacts I was given when my grandparent's died were a collection of old textbooks, most copyrighted in the first decade of the 1900's. Mixed in among the grammar and mathematics books was a pristine copy of a music history guide with information about many famous musicians that I had never seen in any other place. I will be using some of this new information as I continue to write articles for Suite101. Check back often to see the new tidbits that you may not have known about for some of your favorite composers. The first of such articles is an introduction to the childhood of composer and pianist Frederick Chopin. Please check it out!