Ф. М. Бауер

Austrian-born Russian zither-player and composer (born 1829 in Vienna, Austria - died November 17 (30), 1914 in Moscow, Russia) Franz Martynovich Bauer came to St. Petersburg in 1851 to play zither at the court of Nicholas I. and teach the tsar's family his instrument. Later he married Mariia Dmitrievna Petukhova, a Russian singer and harmonium player from Tula. They had seven children and lived in Archangelsk and Moscow. In Moscow, Bauer opened a zither school and published a Russian-German "Zither-Schule", a book for self-study.