Sigismund Bachrich aka Sigmund Bachrich or Siegmund Bachrich, was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 composer

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, violin

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ist, and violist

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He was born in Nyitrazsambokret

Žabokreky nad Nitrou

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 in 1841. He studied violin at the Vienna Conservatoire from 1851 to 1857 with Joseph Böhm

Joseph Böhm

Joseph Böhm was a violinist and teacher.He was born in Pest. He was taught by his father and by Pierre Rode. His brother Franz Böhm was too the well-known violinist and the soloist in the Russian empire in an imperial orchestra....

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He was Kapellmeister

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 at the Paris

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 Théâtre Lyrique

Théâtre Lyrique

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 from 1866 to 1869, when he returned to Vienna

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. He joined the Vienna Philharmonic as violist, remaining until 1899. He became a professor at the Vienna Conservatory until 1894.

He played the viola with the Hellmesberger Quartet

Hellmesberger Quartet

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 from 1869, while he joined the Rosé Quartet

Rosé Quartet

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 in 1890.

He died in Austria

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, either in Grimmenstein

Grimmenstein

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 or Vienna

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He composed for the opera

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, including Muzzedin (1883), Heini von Steier (1884), and Der Fuchs-Major (1889).

His memoirs were published posthumously, in 1914, under the title Aus verklungenen Zeiten; Erinnerungen eines alten Musikers.