The Boy Who Copied Music by Moonlight
Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother kept a cabinet of advanced musical manuscripts locked away — too complex, he thought, for a child. But night after night, young Johann Sebastian crept from his bed, slipped the pages through the latticed cabinet door, and copied them by moonlight, note by painstaking note.…
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