Carl Faelten

Carl Faelten (1846–1925) was a German-American pianist and teacher.

Biography Carl Faelten was born in Ilmenau, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany, on December 21, 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).

In September 1897, Faelten founded the Faelten Pianoforte-School Teachers Seminary, also in Boston, which by 1898 had 350 pupils.

He became a naturalized American citizen, and resided in Holliston, Massachusetts.

He married Adele Schloesser in 1877, and they had three children.

Faelten drowned at Maranacook Lake in Readfield, Maine on July 20, 1925.