Sebastian Bach Mills

Sebastian Bach Mills (13 March 1839 – 21 December 1898) was an English pianist, composer and piano instructor who made his concert career in the United States and gave the first American performances of many important works.

His precocious talent brought him to the attention of the French light music composer Louis-Antoine Jullien, who engaged the "infant prodigy" for his earliest concert performances.

[2] He studied in England with Cipriani Potter and William Sterndale Bennett[3] and at the Leipzig Conservatory with Louis Plaidy, Carl Czerny, Ignaz Moscheles, Julius Rietz and Moritz Hauptmann.

[2] He went to America in 1856 and, after some disappointing initial receptions, was engaged by New York Philharmonic Society music director Carl Bergmann to perform the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor.

Its favorable reception before a largely German-speaking crowd let Bergmann to re-engage Mills for other performances, and the pianist appeared annually with the Philharmonic Society from 1859 to 1877.