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1BACHMANN
342 (Vienna, Eder); 2 trios for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello (Brunswick, Spehr); Sonata for pianoforte and violin obligato, op. 4 (Offenbach, André); do., op. 23 (Vienna, Eder); do., op. 24 (ib.); Sonata for pianoforte for four hands, op. 41 (Bonn, Simrock); do. for pianoforte, op. 21 (Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel); do., op. 36 (Vienna, Riedt); 12 dances and marches, op. 58 (Worms, Kreitner); 6 pieces for the organ, op. 34 (Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel).—Fétis; Gerber, N. Lex.; Schilling.
5BACHMANN, Pater SIXTUS, born at Kettershausen, Bavaria, July 18, 1754, died at Marchthal about 1818. Contrapuntist and organist, attracted attention even at the age of nine, when he was able to play from memory more than two hundred pieces, and held his own, at Biberach, 1766, in a musical contest on the organ with young Mozart, who was then ten years of age. He acquired his musical education in the monasteries of Elchingen and Marchthal, in the latter of which he was a Premonstrant monk, studied the works of Abbot Vogler, and was temporarily instructed by Kapellmeister Koa, who stopped at Marchthal on his way to Italy. In 1786 he was associated with Hoffmeister in Vienna in his musical publishing society, but withdrew from it two years later. His masses, written in true church style, were much esteemed and widely circulated by numerous copies. Besides them he left behind him a real treasure of cantatas, symphonies, sonatas, violin quartets, and fugues for the organ. Only the following were printed: 2 sonatas for pianoforte (Vienna, 1786); Sonata for do. (Speyer, 1791); Diverse Pezzetti (ib., 1791); Organ Fugue alla Zoppa (ib., 1792); Sonata for pianoforte, op. 1 (Munich, 1800).—Fétis; Gerber, N. Lex.; Schilling.
7BACHOFEN, JOHANN KASPAR, born in Zürich in 1692, died there in 1755. Singing-master in the Latin school and cantor of one of the Zürich churches in 1718; director of the Chorherrn-gesellschaft as successor to Albertin; author of an instruction book on music and singing, the "Music. Notenbüchlein." Compositions: Musicalisches Halleluja, containing 600 melodies for two and three voices with organ and figured bass (8 eds. down to 1767); Vermehrte Zusatz von Morgen, Abend . . . Gesängen (1738); Sacred airs in concert-style for two and three voices given in twelve monthly numbers (4th ed., 1755); Brocke's Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, set to music (1,000 pages, 1740); Musicalische Ergetzungen (1755); Psalmen Davids (8vo, 2d ed., 1759); Für die Sünden der Welt, from Brocke's Passion (1759). His hymns were very popular in Switzerland.—Grove.
9BACHRICH, SIGISMUND, born at Zsambokreth, Hungary, in 1841, still living, 1888. Dramatic composer and violinist, pupil at the Conservatorium, Vienna, of Böhm on the violin (1851–57); for a short time Kapellmeister of a small theatre in Vienna, went in 1861 to Paris, and for several years earned a scanty living as conductor of an orchestra, journalist, and even as an apothecary; then returned to Vienna, and for twelve years was a member of the Helmesberger Quartet. He is now instructor at the Conservatorium, and member of the Philharmonic and the Opera orchestras, also of the Rosé Quartet. Works: Muzzedin, comic opera, given in Vienna, 1883; Heini von Steier, do., ib., 1884; Sakuntala, ballet; Two operettas, Vienna, 1866; Chamber music, pieces for the violin, and songs.—Riemann.
11BACHSCHMIDT, ANTON, born at Mülk, Nether-Austria, Dec. 7, 1705, died at Eichstädt, Bavaria, in 1780 (1776?). Virtuoso on the trombone and violin; member in 1760 of the prince-bishop's court orchestra at Würzburg, and later in the prince's orchestra at Eichstädt, where in 1769 he became Concertmeister. It was only then that he began to study the great composers, especially Graun, to whose style he conformed. The Prince of Eichstädt sent him to Italy to complete his musical education, and, owing to the success of
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