2. He was a pianist and
conductor Britain, noted
for his advocacy of the
music of Franz Liszt and
other members of the
New German School in
England.
3. Walter Bache was
born on June 19, 1842
in Birmingham (United
Kingdom).
He was the second son
of the famous
Unitarian minister
Samuel Bache, who
ran a private school
with his wife, Emily
Higginson.
4. His older brother, Francis
Edward Bache, was a composer
and organist, while his sister,
Constance Bache, was a
composer, pianist and teacher,
and later wrote a joint biography
of two brothers with the title
Brother Musicians.
5. After a visit to
Birmingham, Bache
moved to Rome in
1863, the city where
he lived for the next
two years. He
received private
lessons from Liszt,
one of the privileged
few who could.
6. Bache became
teacher piano at the
Royal Academy of
Music in 1881.
Bache died in
London on March
26, 1888, at forty-
five years of age,
due to a flu.
