Carl Heymann (also Karl; 1853 in Filehne, (or Oct. 4, 1854 in Amsterdam) – 1922 in Bingen), was a virtuoso German pianist, composer and piano teacher.

Life

Heymann studied at

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from 1879 to 1880. Following his period in Frankfurt, he returned to live in Bingen. After the 1880s the name of the brilliant young Heymann's name disappeared from the musical world. He spent the last third of his life in an institution. Heymann's repertoire included the virtuoso piano concertos of

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. Among his students in Frankfurt were the American pianist and composer

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whom he found to be so talented, that in 1880 he suggested, when illness forced him to resign, that MacDowell be his successor at the Hoch Conservatory, at the age of 19.

References

Literature

* Peter Cahn: ''Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978)'', Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979. {{DEFAULTSORT:Heymann, Carl 1850s births 1922 deaths 19th-century German pianists Pianists from the Kingdom of Prussia