Celebrated Pianists of the Past and Present; A Collection of One Hundred and Thirty-Nine Biographies, with Portraits (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WALTER BACHE. Both as virtuoso and teacher Bache was one of the most thorough pianists of modern times, but as a disciple of Franz Liszt he became especially celebrated. He was chiefly indebted to three of the best masters for his thorough musical education, namely, Moscheles, Plaidy and Liszt; the latter particularly being invaluable to him in the study of pianoforte playing. Walter Bache was born at Birmingham, June, 19th 1842, in which town the organist Stimpson became his first music master. In the years 1858?1861 he entered the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where, besides Plaidy and Moscheles, Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Friedrich Richter conducted his studies. After finishing his course at Leipzig he went to Italy, visited Milan and Florence, and finally Rome where Franz Liszt, then Abbe, was residing. For three years, from 1862?1865, he was Liszt's pupil and followed in his footsteps. As one of the warmest admirers of this great master he left Rome and came to London. Here he met with great success as teacher of the pianoforte, pianist, and conductor. He gave a yearly concert at which some great work of a living composer was performed. It was primarily Liszt's works that he conducted, the Symphonic Poems, Legend of St. Elizabeth and the Thirteenth Psalm; playing himself the concertos in E-flat and A-Major. By the introduction of more modern music he has justly earned considerable reputation in England. He was a true artist, with no other aim than the furtherance of his art, an amiable unselfish character and his death, which took place March 26th 1888, was a real loss to musiced interests in London.KARL HEINRICH BARTH. Proceeding from a good school this musician has become one of our best pianoforte teachers and an excellent performer. He was born on the 1...