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 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. 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.
Once as he sat weary by the roadside someone threw a herring to him so that he might eat as he rested. He, too, was a musician, as his people had been for many years. His name was Veit Bach, and his little boy was called Hans, the Player, because he, too, loved to play the violin.
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. 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.
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Underline Links. Highlight Links. All people insist he be banished. However, Elisabeth appeals to them to stop. She asserts that she is the most deeply hurt. Landgrave Hermann orders Tannhauser to visit the Pope in order to pay for what he has done. So, she decides to go to heaven. Tannhauser attempts to visit Venus again. Wolfram stops him. Then, the coffin, in which Elisabeth is laid, is carried passed them.
Tannhauser takes his last breath, because he is shocked to see her. But, his soul is saved. You may think that all operas composed by Wilhelm Richard Wagner are difficult and are long.
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