The Young Brahms by Opal Wheeler Virginia where he spends the best

where he spends the best part of his days

invisible work she was doing for her family--and then sent that list to her husband

and a Geisel Honor

Designed with vintage mushroom images from the Cavallini archives

The Young Brahms by Opal Wheeler Virginia where he spends the bestJohannes Brahms, the frail little son of poor parents, spent the first years of his life in a wretched tenement in the old harbor city of Hamburg. It is here that the present story opens. His father, an irresponsible musician, kept the child up, playing the piano at low taverns, until all hours of the night for whatever small payment he could get. However, little Johannes's love for fine music and for composing finally led to lessons and then to a