Vinzenz Lachner

Vinzenz Lachner was a German composer and conductor.

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Vinzenz Lachner, a German organist and composer, received his musical education at the Augsburg music school before serving as an organist in Vienna. He held the significant post of Court Chapel-master at Mannheim from 1836 to 1873, a tenure of nearly four decades, and visited London in 1842, according to the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886). Lachner composed a symphony, chamber music, songs, and part-songs for men’s voices. His influence extended through his teaching, as he numbered among his pupils the celebrated violinist Jean Becker and the composer Max Brauer, who studied with him in Karlsruhe from 1875-76, as noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Lachner also taught pianist Carl Wolfsohn in Mannheim, who later toured Bavaria with violinist Teresa Milanollo before settling in the United States, according to the Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1890). His expertise was further recognized when he served on a committee that, in 1863, judged Joseph Joachim Raff’s first symphony, “In the Fatherland,” the best of thirty-two compositions in a competition, as detailed in Famous Composers and Their Works (1891). A difference with Lachner in Mannheim also prompted the distinguished harpist and composer Charles Oberthür to move to England in 1844, as Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1908) records.