Friedrich Koch

Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cellist and teacher.

He served as a cellist in the Royal Orchestra of Berlin between 1882 and 1891, after which he accepted a position of music director (Kapellmeister) for the resort town of Baden-Baden.

A year later, he returned to Berlin, where he concentrated on composing and teaching, eventually becoming a professor and director of theory at the Musikhochschule where he had studied.

[citation needed] His compositions, which were often based on German folk melodies and written in a late Romantic style, gained him considerable recognition and acclaim.

9, won the Mendelssohn Prize and his Wald-Idyll (Forest Idyll), Three Fantasy Pieces for piano trio, op.