Carl Faelten

He was born in Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, on 21 December 1846.

Carl Faelten was a pianist and teacher.

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.