The British Musical Biography

[E] Bache, Constance, pianist and writer,
born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, the youngest
child of the Rev. Samuel Bache (1804-1876),
Minister of the Church of the Messiah, Bir-
mingham. Her musical talent was fostered
by her brother, Walter Bache, and she studied
at the Conservatorium, Munich, becoming,
later on, a pupil of Klindworth and Fritz
Hartvigson. An accident to her right hand
put a stop to the public career open to her,
but she played occasionally at concerts in Bir-
mingham, up to the year 1883, when she
settled in London as a teacher, devoting,
however, much of her time to musical litera-
ture and translations, of which the following
are the most important : — Liszt : Oratorio, St.
Elizabeth (see Bache, Walter) ; Letters, 2.
vols. (Grevel, 1894) ; words of many of his
songs. H. von Bulow — Letters and literary
remains (Unwin, 1896), Wagner: — Descriptive
sketch of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (for
Richter concert programmes). Heintz : Ana-
lyses of Wagner's " Tristan " (1891) ; Meister-
singer (1891) ; " Parsifal " (1892). Schumann :
"The Rose's Pilgrimage ;" Scenes from Goe-
the's "Faust." Mozart: Libretto of "Bas-
tian and Bastienne " (1894). Humperdinck :
Libretto of " Hansel and Gretel ;" Lobe's
Catechism of Music, and Von Bulow's anno-
tated editions of Cramer, Chopin, etc. Con-
stance Bache is the composer of the songs,
" To my Love " and " The rain is falling."

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