The Musicians of Bremen: European Folk Tales

by Wilhelm Grimm

Paperback

First published June 19, 2015

About the author

One year after Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm started studying law at the University of Marburg, his younger brother, German author Wilhelm Karl Grimm, followed.

In 1825, Wilhelm married Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen. Together they parented four children: Jakob Grimm (1826-1826), Herman Friedrich Grimm (1828-1901), Rudolf Georg Grimm (1830-1889), and Auguste Luise Pauline Marie (1832-1919).

From 1837 to 1841, the Grimm brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to form a group, known as the Göttinger sieben. They protested against Ernst August, king of Hanover, whom they accused of violating the constitution. The king fired all seven professors.

Wilhelm Grimm died in Berlin.

---Adapted from Wikipedia

Reviews

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

The moral of the story? There isn't one.

[Ink Set Go · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book in the old books shelf and decided to give it a read. I'm really into the shortest-story-reads-mode these days, coming over the reading block that has gripped me since the year started.. So, as much as I liked reading it to my child, I couldn't find the moral of the story. It's about old animals who have served their masters but now are too old to serve them, so their masters have decided to part with them, sell them or either kill them.. And they all embark on a journey to be the 🎶 musicians. The adventure on the way is interesting but I wish it wouldn't have ended there.