 Bachmann was educated at the Benedictine monastery at Elchingen, and from 1771 he studied music at the Premonstratensian monastery Marchtal Abbey, where in 1773 he took holy orders.From 1782 he was choirmaster, organist and later a teacher of theology at this abbey.In 1803 he moved to Reutlingendorf, where he died in 1825.