The Moonlight Manuscripts

In the German town of Ohrdruf around 1696, eleven-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach lived with his older brother Johann Christoph, who kept a cabinet of advanced musical manuscripts locked away, deemed too complex for a boy. But young Sebastian had other ideas. Night after night, he reached through the latticed door of the cabinet, carefully extracted the pages, and copied them by moonlight — six months of painstaking work driven by a hunger his brother could not comprehend.…