Bachmann, Sixt (actually, Joseph Siegmund Eugen)
Bachmann, Sixt (actually, Joseph Siegmund Eugen)
Bachmann, Sixt (actually, Joseph Siegmund Eugen), German keyboard player and composer; b. Kettershausen, July 18, 1754; d. Reutlingen-dorf, Oct. 18, 1825. He was a gifted child, and on Nov. 5 or 6, 1766, he engaged in an organ competition with the youthful Mozart in Markt Biberbach. In 1771 he entered the Premonstratensian monastery in Ober Marchthal, where he took his vows (1773) and was ordained a priest (1778). After serving as a music teacher and choirmaster there, he settled in Reutlingendorf in 1803. He composed church music, piano sonatas, and organ pieces.
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