Introduction

Biography

Around 1865, Bak­er was an or­gan­ist in Con­cord, Maine.

He lived in Ger­ma­ny 1874–90, where he stu­died mu­sic, re­ceiv­ing his PhD de­gree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig. His doc­tor­al dis­ser­ta­tion was on the mu­sic of the Se­ne­ca In­di­ans.

Later he was a li­ter­ary ed­it­or for the G. Schir­mer Mu­sic Com­pa­ny (1892–1926) and wrote the Bio­gra­phi­cal Dic­tion­ary of Mu­si­cians (1900).