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Charlotte Wilhelmine Caroline Bachmann (* 2 November 1757 in Berlin; † 19 August 1817 in Berlin) was a German singer, pianist and composer.

Life

Charlotte Bachmann was born in Berlin, the daughter of musician Wilhelm Heinrich Stöwe, and studied singing and harpsichord as a child. At the age of nine, she made her debut in the Liebhaberkonzerte (Amateur Concerts) which had been established by Friedrich Benda, son of Franz Benda. She married Berlin violist Karl Ludwig Bachmann on 20 September 1785.

She was one of twenty founding members of the Berlin Singakademie in 1791, and was instrumental in establishing annual performances of C. H. Graun’s Der Tod Jesu between 1797 and 1806, a tradition that continued at the Berlin court until 1884. She was well regarded as a performer in Berlin.

One of her songs was published in Rellstab’s Clavier-Magazin in 1787.

She died in Berlin on 19 August 1817.

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