Identifier: brothermusicians00bach (find matches)
Title: Brother musicians : reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bache, Constance, 1846-1903
Subjects: Bache, F. E. (Francis Edward), 1833-1858 Bache, Walter, 1842-1888
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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bearing, his grand forehead, his intellectual ex-pression, made him the subject of remark andinquiry in any society when he appeared; how noone who saw him could for one moment fail torecognise that he was richly endowed with mentalgifts. He had tried his wings in opera, in which hewas fathered by such able men as Alfred Mellonand Palgrave Simpson. It now remained for him to go through thedeep waters of Leipzig pedagogy—of that Leipzigwhich was the city of Bach, if also the haunt ofMendelssohn. Leaving England in the autumn of 1853 hesoon made himself a place in the circle of youngmen, English and others, then studying in Leipzig,and one of his first letters to his parents containsthe following:— October 24, 1853. Today I have seen Sigismund Schwann, whohas been here now for a year. He wishes par-1ticularly to be remembered to you. . . . Alsothere is at Leipzig Dickenss son, who is a friendof Schwann. . . . Russell Taplin has introducedme to a very nice friend, who is waiting like
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