Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . had laid away in a cross-barred chest a music-book which contained a collection of the organ com-positions of the famous master Pachelbel. The boy purloined the bookand copied it secretly by moonlight, but the pitiless elder brother tookthe copy made with such pains and locked it up more carefully thanthe original had been. In his fifteenth year Johann Sebastian wandered to Luneburg. Hisbeautifully clear soprano voice won him a place in the Michaelisschule,which sustained an excellent chorus, whose members received instructionand expenses gratis an
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . had laid away in a cross-barred chest a music-book which contained a collection of the organ com-positions of the famous master Pachelbel. The boy purloined the bookand copied it secretly by moonlight, but the pitiless elder brother tookthe copy made with such pains and locked it up more carefully thanthe original had been. In his fifteenth year Johann Sebastian wandered to Luneburg. Hisbeautifully clear soprano voice won him a place in the Michaelisschule,which sustained an excellent chorus, whose members received instructionand expenses gratis and were paid in addition. Bach received the secondhighest place at once, and after his voice was gone his remarkable musicalability procured him the position of violin accompanist of the chorus-singers in their practice, and as the directing prefect of the chorus he re-ceived, according to custom, a correspondingly higher salary. The three years that Bach spent in Luneburg had the most important 1 This is open to investigation.—The
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