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Presents the life and accomplishments of the great composer, from his childhood in Germany and Austria and his early successes to the lasting influence his music has today.

"Roudinesco traces [Sigmund] Freud's life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland ... Alert to his intellectual complexity--the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved--Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.

Discusses the life and work of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who studied heredity in plants and is considered the father of genetics.

A biography of Mozart.

"This young readers' edition features the entirety of Frankl's Holocaust memoir and an abridged version of his writing on psychology, supplemented with photographs, a map of the concentration camps, a glossary of terms, a selection of Frankl's letters and speeches, and a timeline of his life and of important events in the Holocaust"--Back cover.

A short biography of composer Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Introduces young readers to the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

A republication of the 1926 text which presents over two hundred excerpts from the letters, writings and reported conversations of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which he discusses the concerns and events of his life, and offers his opinions on opera, religion and morals, travel, and other matters.

Provides an overview of eleven ongoing historical and political controversies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with extensive background information, hypothetical positions, and a "Questions and Activities" section.