ABSTRACT
Most of the leading composers of the late eighteenth century wrote music for wind band, and J. C. Bach was no exception. His known output in this field comprises a number of marches (mostly written for regiments in continental service), which with two exceptions have survived only in manuscript, and two published sets of works. One, with the interesting polylingual title of ' Sei Sinfonia [sic], pour deux clarinettes, deux Cors de Chasse et Basson . . . ', printed by Longman & Broderip (London,?1782), has survived in three copies (two in the Royal Music Library, British Museum 1 , and one at the Fürstliches Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Bückeburg); the other,' Military Piece's, for two clarinets, two horns and a bassoon . . . ', printed by B. Cooke (Dublin,?1794), appears to have survived in only one copy, which the present writer recently found in the library of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. These are works of very considerable musical interest and will form the principal topic of this article.
