Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia
by Deucher, Sybil, Wheeler, Opal
Illustrated by Greenwalt, Mary
This is the complete life of Bach written for children. Vivid descriptions bring the major events of Bach's life together, including his childhood: how he sat up many nights and copied music by the light of the moon, and how he walked two hundred miles to a choir school at Luneburg. Then his adult life: how he helped his wife Magdalena put the twenty children to bed every night; how he spread brown bread with honey for them to eat every afternoon; and how he taught them all to sing and play different kinds of music that Bach ever wrote.
- Publication Date
- 1937
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- Reading level
- Upper Elementary
- Content warning
- None
Book tags
- Series
- Great Musicians
- Genre
- BiographyNon-Fiction
- Format
- Chapter Book
- Religion
- Christianity
- Timeline
- Enlightenment
- Culture
- Europe
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