Artist Info: Francis Edward Bache

Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 – August 24, 1858) was an English organist and composer.

Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City Organist, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school. He played the violin in the 1846 Birmingham festival, and in 1849 went to London as a private composition student under William Sterndale Bennett. He studied with Sterndale Bennett three years.[1] [read more...]