page_title: Joseph Siegmund Bachmann
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Siegmund Bachmann / Life
caption_attribution_description: Kettershausen, Landkreis Unterallgäu Gedenkstein für den Komponisten Sixt Bachmann "Josef Sigismund Bachmann wurde 1754 hier in Kettershausen als Sohn des Dorflehrers geboren. Schon im frühen Kindesalter war sein großes musikalisches Talent erkennbar. Höhepunkt dieser ntwicklung war seine Begegnung mit dem fast gleichaltrigen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mit diesem musikalischen Wettstreit ist er in die große Musikgeschichte eingegnagen. Später studierte er Theologie und trat als Pater Sixtus in das Prämonstratenserkloster Obermarchtal in Oberschwaben ein. Nach dem Verbot der geistlichen Orden 1893 übernahm er die kleine Pfarrei Reutlingendorf auf der schwäbischen Alb und verstarb dort 1825. Mit seinem musikalischen Nachlaß zählt Bachmann zu den großen schwäbischen Klosterkomponisten."
context_page_description: Joseph Siegmund Bachmann was a German organist and composer. Musically talented at an early age, he had an organ-playing competition in 1766 with the ten-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
context_section_description: He was born in Kettershausen in 1754, son of Franz Anton Bachmann and his wife Maria Anna Franziska. He had notable musical abilities at an early age. In  November 1766 in Biberbach, where his grandfather Franz Joseph Schmöger was organist, he had an organ-playing competition with Mozart who was then aged ten.
  Bachmann was educated at the Benedictine monastery at Elchingen, and from 1771 he studied music at the Premonstratensian monastery Marchtal Abbey, where in 1773 he took holy orders. From 1782 he was choirmaster, organist and later a teacher of theology at this abbey. In 1803 he moved to Reutlingendorf, where he died in 1825.
caption: Memorial stone for Joseph Siegmund Bachmann in Kettershausen
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