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Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia

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
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None

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Religion
Christianity
Culture
Europe

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