Born 12 January 1863[1] in Ladenburg, a suburb of Mannheim, Germany – his date and place of death are unknown[2] but he is thought to have disappeared during The Holocaust.

[1] In 1898 Hochstetter published an article entitled “Noch einmal Max Reger" in a music magazine (Die Redenden Künste 5 nr.

[3] Caesar Hochstetter published his arrangement “Album fuer einhändige Klavierspiel: 8 Stuecke von Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Reger und Zichy”, for right or left hand (Breitkopf & Haertel, 1915).

2 (R. Forberg, Leipzig), arrangements for Bach's “Sarabande und Bourrée” for piano (A. Holzmann, Zurich) and “10 kleine Stücke Op.

Hochstetter published an article in "Musikalisches Wochenblatt" in Leipzig on 24 January 1901 giving a positive critique of a concert given in Budapest by Count Géza Zichy of Hungary, who suffered a riding accident in his teens and lost his right arm.

His first cousin once removed (also a Hochstetter descendant) was Kurt Weill (born 2 March 1900 in Dessau and died 3 April 1950 in Haverstraw, New York), the famous music composer of "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mack the Knife" who married Lotte Lenya (born 18 October 1898 in Vienna and died 27 November 1981 in Haverstraw, New York), the famous Austrian singer and actress.