The six stories of musicians contained in this book help the reader to gain an insight into the childhood and youth of important classical and post-classical composers. Accurate in historical details, sensitive and entertaining, this book describes how the life of the protagonists was influenced by music at a very early stage and how they succeeded both in maintaining their ground in an often uncomprehending environment and in creating something new.

• Der abgeschnittene Zopf (Joseph Haydn in Eisenstadt)
• Der Kuckuck im Orchester (Leopold Mozart in Salzburg)
• Konzert für kleine Hände (Johann Christian Bach und die Familie Mozart in London)
• Mit Tönen sprechen (Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn)
• Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd (Carl Maria von Weber in Gräfentonna)
• Die Familienoper (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin)