Daniel Bacheler
Illustration — Daniel Bacheler (on horseback) from an engraving by Thomas Lant of the funeral procession of Sir Philip Sidney in 1586 Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (baptized 16 March 1572 – buried 29 January 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Bacheler was born in the Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton, a son of Richard Bachelor and his wife Elizabeth (née Cardell). He served an apprenticeship with his uncle, Thomas Cardell, who was a lutenist and dancing-master in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and finally as a groom of the privy chamber for Queen Anne of Denmark, consort of James I. At the royal court he composed some fifty lute pieces.
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Daniel Bacheler
Thomas Lant · The Funeral Procession of Sir Phillip Sidney (detail) · Public domain
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- 1572 · Aston Clinton.
- Died
- 1619 · Kent.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
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- composer · lutenist
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- Baroque music
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- English
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Illustration — Daniel Bacheler (on horseback) from an engraving by Thomas Lant of the funeral procession of Sir Philip Sidney in 1586 Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (baptized 16 March 1572 – buried 29 January 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Bacheler was born in the Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton, a son of Richard Bachelor and his wife Elizabeth (née Cardell). He served an apprenticeship with his uncle, Thomas Cardell, who was a lutenist and dancing-master in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and finally as a groom of the privy chamber for Queen Anne of Denmark, consort of James I. At the royal court he composed some fifty lute pieces.
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Born at Aston Clinton in 1572, died in Kent in 1619.
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Daniel Bacheler died at Kent.
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- 1.Grove Music Online, "Daniel Bacheler"
- 2.H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 978-0-19-861411-1.
- 3.Matthew Spring: The lute in Britain: a history of the instrument and its music, (Oxford Early Music Series), Oxford University Press, 2001, , . p. 243
- 4.Anne Batchelor. A Batchelor's Delight. Highgate Publications (Beverley) Ltd. 1990. 0-948929-40-5.
- 5.Batchelor p.40
- 6.The tune of Monsieur's Almain is thought to originate earlier than 1584, and appears in settings by Thomas Morley, William Byrd and others. See, for example, C.A. Powers: 30 Elizabethan Songs - With Documentation, Chapter Twenty - Monsieur's Almain, 2008
- 7.Telegraph.co.uk retrieved 1 February 2008.
- 8.Batchelor p.47
- 9.Batchelor p.43
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Bacheler, Daniel, Selected works for lute / Daniel Bacheler; edited and transcribed by Martin Long, London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
- Long, Martin., The music of Daniel Bacheler: a critical study, University of Sydney, 1969.
- Batchelor, A: 'Daniel Bacheler: The Right Perfect Musician', The Lute, 28 (1988), 3–12
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