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diff --git a/34568.txt b/34568.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0d265c --- /dev/null +++ b/34568.txt @@ -0,0 +1,680 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Thomas Tapper + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Johann Sebastian Bach + The story of the boy who sang in the streets + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: December 4, 2010 [EBook #34568] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + + BACH + + [Illustration] + + _By_ + THOMAS TAPPER + + THEODORE PRESSER CO. + 1712 CHESTNUT STREET + .PHILADELPHIA. + + + + + Johann Sebastian Bach + + The Story of the Boy + Who Sang in the Streets + + This Book was made by + + ............................................... + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO. + Printed in the U.S.A. + + + + + [Illustration] + + + + + The Story of the Boy Who Sang + in the Streets + + +This is the house in which JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH was born. + + [Illustration: THE HOUSE IN WHICH BACH WAS BORN.] + +This house stands in the town of Eisenach in Germany. It looks very much +the same today as it did when Sebastian was a little boy. Many people go +there to visit this house because the little boy grew to be a famous +man. + +In Eisenach there is a statue of Bach near the palace. + + [Illustration: STATUE OF BACH AT EISENACH.] + +In the same town in which Sebastian was born there stands on the top of +a hill a very famous castle built many hundreds of years ago. + +This castle is called the Wartburg. + + [Illustration: THE CASTLE AT WARTBURG.] + +As a boy little Sebastian used to climb the hill with his friends, and +they, no doubt, had a happy time playing about the castle grounds. In +one of its great halls the minstrels of Germany held their Song +Contests. + +When Sebastian was old enough he used to travel afoot, just as the +minstrels did; his purpose was to go to hear fine organ players. Once as +he sat weary by the roadside someone threw a herring to him so that he +might eat as he rested. + + [Illustration: BACH EATING THE HERRING.] + +Little Sebastian's father was named JOHANN AMBROSIUS BACH. He, too, was +a musician, as his people had been for many years. + + [Illustration: JOHANN AMBROSIUS BACH.] + +One of these was a miller who played and sang while the corn was +grinding. His name was Veit Bach, and his little boy was called Hans, +the Player, because he, too, loved to play the violin. + + [Illustration: VEIT BACH AND HIS SON HANS.] + +When Sebastian was ten years old his father and mother died. So he went +to live with his brother, whose home was a few miles away. + +Of this brother Sebastian had music lessons, and he improved so rapidly +that he used to beg to be allowed to play the pieces in a big book in +the library. + +But the brother refused him this pleasure. However, little Sebastian was +eager to learn all the music he could find, so he used to sit up on +moonlight nights and copy these pages while his brother was asleep. + +But what do you think happened when he had copied everything in that big +book? + +His brother found out what he had done and took all his precious music +away from him. + + [Illustration: BACH COPYING MUSIC BY MOONLIGHT.] + +If you know any boy who is about twenty years old you may say to him, +Bach was as old as you are when Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. + +And although there was this difference of twenty years or so in their +ages, we may think of them at work in the world at the same time. You +must remember that all men like Franklin and Bach who became famous did +so by working very hard. + + [Illustration: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.] + +Franklin, too, was born very poor. Once he walked the streets of +Philadelphia with a loaf of bread under each arm. But by being faithful +in all he did he became the friend of all his countrymen and of Kings +and Queens besides. + +Benjamin Franklin was quite a little younger than Sebastian Bach. But +there was a famous man who was almost exactly Sebastian's age. This man +composed an Oratorio that is loved by everybody. It is sung in cities +and towns all over the world, particularly at Christmas time. + +Do you happen to know the name of this Oratorio? If not, you can surely +learn it by asking someone or by looking it up in a book. + +Write in the name of the composer of this Oratorio below the picture, +and write on this line the name of the Oratorio itself. + + ............................................... + + [Illustration] + +The composer's name is + + ............................................... + +The Oratorio, the name of which you have just written, was first sung in +the Irish city of Dublin, 1742. + +At that time Sebastian Bach was living in Leipsic and had been for many +years at the head of the Thomas School. He was known as its Cantor. Bach +worked very hard here to supply music for several of the Leipsic +churches, and he worked so well that his fame spread until it reached +the ears of the Emperor. + +Frederick the Great was also a musician and composer. So he invited +Sebastian Bach to visit him at his castle. There were many people +present, but Sebastian Bach was the principal guest. He played on many +of the Emperor's fine pianos. When he reached home again he composed a +musical work and dedicated it to the Emperor. + + [Illustration: BACH PLAYING BEFORE FREDERICK THE GREAT.] + +The kind of a piano that Sebastian Bach played on was not called a piano +in his day. It was called a Clavier or Clavichord. + +Some day you will study a collection of pieces by Sebastian Bach which +was written for this instrument and was called _The Well Tempered +Clavichord_. + +This is the kind of piano, or clavichord, that Bach used. + + [Illustration: THE CLAVICHORD.] + +And here is the beginning of the very first piece in the collection of +which we have just spoken in Bach's handwriting. + + [Illustration: BACH'S HANDWRITING.] + + [Illustration: MORNING PRAYERS IN THE HOME OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.] + +Sebastian Bach had a very large family, twenty children altogether. Two +of them studied music faithfully with their father. + +One was Friedmann, for whom the father wrote a book called _Little +Preludes_. Friedmann's brother, Philipp Emanuel Bach, was a very fine +clavichord player. He wrote a book about music and composed many pieces. + + [Illustration: WILLIAM FRIEDMANN BACH. PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH.] + +Sebastian Bach died in 1750. He was sixty-five years of age. + +Benjamin Franklin was at that time forty-four years old and George +Washington was eighteen. + +This is the way Bach wrote his name. + + [Illustration] + + + FACTS ABOUT SEBASTIAN BACH. + +Read these facts about Sebastian Bach and try to write his story out of +them, using your own words. + +When your story is finished ask your mother or your teacher to read it. +When you have made it as perfect as you can, copy it on pages 14, 15 and +16. + +1. Full name: Johann Sebastian Bach. + +2. Born 1685, died 1750. + +3. As a little boy he sang in the streets, begging from door to door. + +4. His father and mother died when he was ten years old. + +5. He went to live with his brother. + +6. He took his first position when he was seventeen. + +7. He used to walk long distances to hear famous organists, one of whom +was named Buxtehude. + +8. He could play the organ, clavichord, violin, and other stringed +instruments. + +9. He wrote music for the voice (solo and chorus). + +10. And for many different instruments. + +11. He never met his fellow countryman, Handel. + +12. Bach copied lots of music because printed music was dear in his day. + +13. He was Cantor of the Thomas School for many years. + +14. Once he visited Frederick the Great at Potsdam. + +15. For his little son, Friedmann, he wrote a book of _Little Preludes_. + + + SOME QUESTIONS. + +1. In what year did Bach die? + +2. Name an American who was alive at the same time. + +3. What famous castle can be seen from the streets of Eisenach? + +4. What other great German composer lived in Bach's time? + +5. What instruments could Bach play? + +6. For what purpose did Bach travel from place to place, as a boy? + +7. What was the name of Sebastian's father? + +8. Who was Hans, the Player? + +9. Were any of Bach's children musical? + +10. What music by Bach have you heard? + + + + + THE STORY OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH + +Written by................................................ + +On (date)................................................. + + + [Illustration] + + + + + Transcriber's Notes: + +On page 10, a comma was added after "or clavichord". + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH *** + +***** This file should be named 34568.txt or 34568.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/5/6/34568/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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