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Johann Caspar Bachofen

Short Name: Johann Caspar Bachofen
Full Name: Bachofen, Johann Caspar, 1695-1755
Birth Year: 1695
Death Year: 1755

Johann Caspar Bachofen, born in Zürich in 1692, died there in 1755. Singing-master in the Latin school and cantor of one of the Zürich churches in 1718; director of te Chorherrn-gesellschaft as successor to Albertin; author of an instruction book on music and singing, the "Music Notenbüchlein." Compositions: Musicalisches Halleluja, containing 600 melodies for two and three voices with organ and figured bass (8 eds. down to 1767); Vermehrte Zustaz von Morgen, Abend...Gesängen (1738; Sacred airs ain concert-style for two and three voices given in monthly number (4th ed. 1755); Brocke's Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, set to music (1,000 pages, 1740); Musicalische Ergetzungen (1755); Psalmen dAvids (8vo, 2d ed., 1759); Für der Sünden der Welt from Brocke's Pssion (1759). His hymns were very popular in Switzerland.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Johann Caspar Bachofen (2)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
BACHOFENJohann Caspar Bachofen, 1695-1755 (Composer)817123 45432 17512
[Mit Ernst, ihr Menschenkinder] (Bachofen)Hs. Kasp. Bachofen (Composer)451565 43455 65671

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