Brother musicians : reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache . In 1849, at the age of sixteen, he was placedunder the late Mr. (afterwards Sir Sterndale)Bennett in London, with whom he studied com-position for three to four years, during whichtime he also gave music lessons, and took the postof organist in a church besides. He was thensharing lodgings with his cousin, the late Martineau, ; and there is no doubtthat the economies the two young fellows practised—trying to live on nothing a day, and thrive onit—sowed the seeds of his cousins delicate health,and of the fatal diseas
Brother musicians : reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache . In 1849, at the age of sixteen, he was placedunder the late Mr. (afterwards Sir Sterndale)Bennett in London, with whom he studied com-position for three to four years, during whichtime he also gave music lessons, and took the postof organist in a church besides. He was thensharing lodgings with his cousin, the late Martineau, ; and there is no doubtthat the economies the two young fellows practised—trying to live on nothing a day, and thrive onit—sowed the seeds of his cousins delicate health,and of the fatal disease to which Edward suc-cumbed. Bache was the eldest of a large family ;his father, a leading Unitarian minister in Birming-ham, had to supplement the very inadequatepittance usually paid to ministers in those days byschool-teaching, or rather by taking boarders forthe Proprietary School to which his own five sons1 Smetanas Overture to Die verkaufte Braut. ?J^. (s$^ WILLIAM STERKDALE BENNETT i849-5i] LONDON 7 The rigid economy young Bache nowpractised, and the scrupulous conscientiousness ofhis youthful account-keeping, show how manfullyhe was determined to lessen, as far as possible, theburden falling upon his parents shoulders. A close friendship with the late Mr. AlfredFoster Barham of Bridgwater, which continueduninterrupted until Baches death, gave rise tomany intimate letters, from which permission toquote has been given. Just settled in London, he writes to his friend(and occasional mentor, Mr. Barham being someyears his senior) :— I think with you that it does one a great dealof good to have to leave home, in more than oneway. Firstly one feels how very slight were allthe little annoyances and vexations which youspeak of as experienced in the course of a homelife, compared with, I may almost say, the absenceof the same ; at all events compared with thegeneral round of little kindnesses which one receives 1 Amongst the most n
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