Ernst Bachrich was born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna together with Arnold Schonberg and Carl Prohaska. He became secretary of Shonberg’s circle of music (1918-1920), conductor of the Wiener Volksoper (1920-1925), also of orchestras in Dusseldorf and Duisberg, Germany. He conducted the series “Music at Present Time- Vienna. He composed lieder, chamber music, works for greater orchestras.
On May 15, 1942, Ernst Bachrich was deported to Izbica, where he was murdered.