“As a brilliant musician, a graduate mechanical engineer, and a practical manufacturer, Vincent Bach is eminently qualified to speak on all subjects related to brass instruments. What proved to be his life work really began at the early age of six years, when he was introduced to the violin and bugle. His aptitude was for the bugle, and having developed an excellent embouchure, his thoughts turned to the trumpet. At fourteen, Vincent Bach began taking lessons from Georg Stellwagen, principal trumpet player with the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra. Mr. Stellwagen was considered one of the greatest trumpet virtuosos in Europe. Later, Bach took lessons from the First Trumpeter of the Vienna Opera House while pursuing his studies to become a mechanical engineer, that being his chosen profession.

After graduation, Bach’s first engagement was as an officer of Engineers in the Austrian Navy. Concluding his military obligations, he went to work as a construction engineer in an elevator factory in Vienna. His artistic impulses, however, had never lagged, and his unusual ability on trumpet and cornet attracted such attention that the emoluments from his music far exceeded his earning capacity on the job he held, that he turned to music exclusively.

Vincent Bach became a cornet virtuoso in his own right, a concert artist with well-received recitals in Austria, Germany, England, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Poland. At about the same time as the outbreak of the First World War, he came to the United States. Briefly, after his arrival, he was engaged as First Trumpeter with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Dr. Karl Muck.

The following season Bach appeared as a trumpet soloist throughout the summer of 1915 at the San Francisco Exposition. Following that engagement, he returned to New York to play First Trumpet with the world-famous Russian Diaghilev Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House. Later he toured the principal cities of the United States with this Ballet.