Carl Felten ( German: Carl Faelten ; December 21, 1846 , Ilmenau - July 20, 1925 , , Maine ) is a German-American pianist and music teacher .
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Biography
He graduated from a music school in Armstedt . Before the start of the Franco-Prussian war, he was drafted into the army and, as reported in the lifetime biography of the American publication “Musical World”, after three years of service without the ability to make music, he was forced to practically start working with the instrument from scratch [2] . In 1874 - 1877 he actively performed in various cities of Germany. In 1878, at the invitation of Joseph Joachim Raff, he received a piano class at the newly created Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt .
After Ruff's death in 1882, Felten moved to the United States and taught for three years at the Peabody Conservatory , where Harold Randolph was among his students. In 1885 he moved to the New England Conservatory , and in 1890 , after the death of the founder of the conservatory Eben Touget , he became its second director. In 1897, as a result of a conflict inside the conservatory, Felten resigned and for some time led his own pianist school in Boston .
Felten owns a number of piano transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach (in particular, violin and cello sonatas and partitas).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians / Ed. by E. Douglas Bomberger. - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. - P.99.