Daniel Bacheler (baptized 16 March 1572; died 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Bacheler was born at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, and served an apprenticeship with Thomas Cardell who was a lutenist and dancing-master in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and finally as a groom of the privy chamber for Queen Anne of Denmark, consort of James I. At the royal court he composed some fifty lute pieces. Read more on Last.fm