Carl Faelten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Faelten

German-born pianist and teacher

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1846

Place of Birth: Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 20-Jul-1925

Profession: pianist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carl Faelten was a pianist and teacher. He was born in Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, on 21 December 1846. He was primarily self-taught but did study music as a school boy and at Frankfurt from 1868 until 1882 (from 1878 in the Hoch Conservatory).
He was engaged at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore from 1882 until 1885, and at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1885 until 1887.
He was music director of the New England Conservatory from 1890 to 1897.
In September 1897, Faelten founded the Faelten Pianoforte-School Teachers Seminary, also in Boston, which by 1998 had 350 pupils. He toured the US and Germany as a concert pianist. He was the author of The Conservatory Course for Pianists, a widely used 16-volume series of textbooks.