Carl Lachmund

Carl V. Lachmund (27 March 1853 – 20 February 1928) was an American classical pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, and diarist.

Carl Valentine Lachmund was born in Boonville, Missouri in 1853,[1][2] but spent most of his early life in Iowa.

He went to Europe at the age of 16 and studied for six years,[3] graduating in 1875 from the Cologne Conservatory, where his teachers were Ferdinand Hiller, Adolf Jensen, Friedrich Gernsheim and Isidor Seiss.

He continued his studies in Berlin with Moritz Moszkowski, Friedrich Kiel (Paderewski was a fellow student), and Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka.

[1] Lachmund kept a diary that eventually ran to some 750 pages, and it gives one of the most exhaustive accounts of Liszt's keyboard instruction.

[9] After leaving Liszt, Lachmund taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory,[7][10] then toured in Germany and the United States on his return.

[4][8][12] Their concerts included one at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of the battleship USS Maine, whose sinking in Havana Harbour in 1898 was instrumental in the fomenting of the Spanish–American War.

[1] Arnaud (later known as Arno) Lachmund was employed by the Duo-Art Piano Roll company and worked with Felix Arndt, a student of his father's.

[18] Despite Arno's involvement in the recording industry, Carl Lachmund did not make any discs or piano rolls.