Carl Heymann

Carl Heymann (also Karl) ( born October 6, 1854 in Bingen, † November 1922 ) was a German pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Karl Heymann was the son of the Amsterdam chief cantor Isaac Heymann. In Berlin he was a student of Friedrich Kiel. As the successor to Rubinstein, he taught at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main 1878-1880. Despite repeated interruption of his early, successful career through a mental suffering he was considered one of the most important pianists of his generation. As a composer, he was unsurpassed. After his time in Frankfurt he lived again in Bingen.

The music writer Josef Schrattenholz saw in Heymann "a new Liszt" and characterized his game as follows: " Heymann reproducing artist is simultaneously productive activity in an eminent sense, and especially in the intimate fusion of those dual action seems to me the secret of his originality and his success to lie. An excellent composition talent ... he also as a pianist only help. "

After the 1880s the name Heymann disappeared from the consciousness of the music world. The last third of his life were spent in an institution.