The "Town Musicians of Bremen" (Die Bremer
Stadtmusikanten) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and
published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819.
It
tells the story of four ageing domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard
work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they
decide to run away and become town musicians in the city of Bremen. Contrary to
the story's title the characters never arrive in Bremen, as they succeed in
tricking and scaring off a band of robbers, capturing their spoils, and moving
into their house.
The Brothers Grimm first published this tale in the second
edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1819, based on the account of the German
storyteller Dorothea Viehmann (1755–1815).
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