(b. Wiesbaden, Nov. 14, 1845 ; d. Oct. 29, 1920), one of ten children, all followers of music. His talent showed itself very early, and a t 12 years old he played Bach's ' Wohltemperirtes Clavier ' by heart. In 1852 his parents took him to New York, and after a time arrangements were made through the interest of William Schaufenberg, himself a pupil of Hummel, to send him back to Germany for education. He left the United States Sept. 1, 1858, and after nearly four years with Joh. Andersen, a t Eimsbuttel, near Hamburg, he entered the Leipzig Conservatorium, Oct. 22, 1862. After going successfully through the course there under Moscheles, Richter, Reinecke, etc., he returned to New York in Nov. 1865, and after some hesitation settled a t Boston, where he made his first appearance a t the symphony concert of the Harvard Musical Association, Apr. 19, 1866, and where he was well known and much esteemed as a teacher, a pianoforte-player, and a composer and arranger of music for th a t instrument. Amongst other things he played the whole of Schubert's PF. sonatas in public. His compositions embrace a scherzo, op. 2 ; three studies, op. 9 ; ' Pensees,' op. 11, containing a musical setting of H amlet's Soliloquy (Augener & Co., London); * Circumstance ' (Tennyson's Song, op. 13); Prelude, Romance and Toccatina, op. 19; and his arrangements, ten transcriptions from Arthur Sullivan's ' Iolanthe,' op. 14, Concert-Fantasies from Beethoven's ' Fidelio,' opp. 16 and 17. He also published six sets of selections from various composers, fingered and adapted for the piano. G.; additional information from E. P. Warren.