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and the family enjoyed chamber concerts of piano, cello, and bassoon. His mother, Elise, was more humorous and well-read than her husband; he inherited her "cheerful disposition" and love of reading, and she fostered his intellectual curiosity, introducing him to German literature and giving him the complete works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a Christmas present. His maternal grandfather, Bernhard van Haar, a pastor and school

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