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Bache, Constance, Translator -- La Mara, 1837-1927

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Constance Bache (March 11, 1846 - June, 1903[1]) was an English composer, pianist and teacher.

Bache was born in Edgebaston, the daughter of Samuel Bache (1804-1876), a Unitarian minister at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham; an uncle on her mother's side was James Martineau. After learning from her brother Walter, she studied at the Munich Conservatoriumand subsequently under Karl Klindworth and Fritz Hartvigson. After an injury to her right hand, Bache gave up public performance excepting occasional Birmingham concerts. In 1883 she moved to London, where she took up teaching and writing - especially translation from German.

References

  1. ^ Who Was Who 1897-1916 gives her date of death as June 30; the Musical Times obituary gives June 28
  • 'Obituary: Miss Constance Bache', The Musical Times, Vol. 44, No. 726 (Aug. 1, 1903), p. 539

External links


Works by Constance Bache at Project Gutenberg


This biographical information was gathered from the Constance_Bache page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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