Isidor Seiss

Isidor Wilhelm Seiss (23 December 1840 – 25 September 1905) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist.

His first musical studies were under Friedrich Wieck (piano) and Julius Otto (theory), before going to Moritz Hauptmann in Leipzig from 1858 to 1860.

[2] His notable students included Engelbert Humperdinck,[1] Elly Ney (for nine years before she moved on to Leschetizky and Sauer),[citation needed] Willem Mengelberg,[3] Carl Lachmund, Frederick Corder, Volkmar Andreae,[1] Maurits Leefson,[4] Henri Weil,[5] Karl Krill[6] and others.

[1] Isidor Seiss died by his own hand in Cologne in 1905, having suffered increasing blindness that had forced him to retire from his teaching position.

[1] Although aged only 64, he had outlived his entire family, and in his will he endowed the Conservatory with a pension and cash grants for the four oldest teachers.