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.
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.
